Bayern coach: Barcelona is the only club that has no money but buys whoever it wants. I don’t know how they do it, it’s weird

Robert Lewandowski is already playing with his new teammates at Barcelona, where he transferred from Bayern Munich. The Catalans paid 50 million euros for him, something Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann cannot understand.

Everybody knows how big a crisis Barcelona is in. Huge debts are weighing down the club, which is also having problems registering players as it cannot fit into the salary cap. In addition, it owes its own players wages for previous seasons and does not want to pay them out, preferring to sell them, as in the case of Frenkie de Jong.

And yet the club is spending a hundred and six, €50 million for Lewandowski, €60 million for Raphina, with another €70-80 million in the pipeline for Jules Koundé and the transfers of César Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso still in the pipeline.

So the logical question that comes to mind is where is Barcelona getting the money? How does he do it? Even Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann is asking the same question.

“Barcelona is the only club that doesn’t have any money, but then they buy any player they want. I don’t know how they do it. It’s a bit strange, a bit crazy,” Nagelsmann said in an interview with Bild newspaper.

The trick is that Barcelona are almost selling off their future in order to have money for this year’s purchases. President Joan Laporta is selling 49% of BLM rights (merch) and 25% of TV rights for 25 years ahead.

Barcelona is collecting 800 million euros for the whole deal, with the money for this year’s transfers coming from that. But in the coming years, the merch income will be halved, as will the TV rights income. If Culés spends most of the future money it collects on transfers, especially of 33-year-old players, things could turn very black for the club.

Source: Bild, Twitter