Follow up: Dhamia Faleh
The new wage cap in the Spanish League has boosted Barcelona’s ability to spend big in the summer following it owed 125 million pounds last season and was asked by the Spanish Football Association to deduct the wages of its players following the winter transfer season in January.
And the “La Liga” set a wage ceiling in 2013 in an attempt to control the spending of clubs and keep them away from the specter of debt, and each club gets its share according to its returns from sponsorship and broadcasting rights and the sale of players, so the La Liga poles Real Madrid and Barcelona by a large margin, from their competitors, the ceilings of contracts.
The wage cap model is applied in American sports such as American football and basketball, but it is not common in the major European domestic leagues.
The ceiling means the maximum wages that clubs can pay players, without prejudice to the Financial Fair Play regulations, following accounting for revenues and club revenues.
Barcelona returned to the safe range in the wage ceiling, following suffering from a severe financial crisis that disrupted the registration of players in the last period.
Barcelona activated several economic levers by selling a number of its assets and television broadcasting rights, in order to improve its financial position before the start of the current season.
The Spanish League (La Liga) revealed on Friday the new wage ceiling, led by Real Madrid, the European champion, with 592 million pounds, and this means a huge ability to make great contracts and give its new players high salaries, but he did not do so and his spending in the summer was less than Barcelona, who occupied the runner-up With 569 million pounds, Barcelona’s wage ceiling was only 144.3 million last season, following it was the only club that was paying more than its financial capacity.
Atlético Madrid came third with 295 million, Seville with 172 million, Villarreal with 130 million, Real Sociedad with 116 million, Athletic Bilbao with 110 million, Real Betis with 83 million, Valencia with 65 million, Espanyol with 62 million, Getafe with 59 million, Villajo and Real Madrid with 54 million, and Cela-Rayola with 43 million, and Real Betis with 43 million. 42 million, Valladolid and Cadiz with 39 million, Alche and Girona with 37 million pounds.
In a related context, a report revealed Barcelona’s ability to terminate the contract of its veteran defender Gerard Pique next season, despite agreeing to deduct his wages. Rather, Pique offered to play for free for the Catalan team, but La Liga confirmed the illegality of this offer.
According to a Spanish report, if Pique does not play more than 35% of his team’s matches this season, Barcelona will have the right to unilaterally terminate his contract until 2024 in the summer.
Pique played more than 600 games for Barcelona and won 30 titles with him, but he is now at the bottom of the options of his coach and former teammate Xavi, with Conde, Araujo, Christensen and Eric Garcia ahead of him.
Barcelona started his season perfectly, winning 4 out of 5 matches and scoring 16 goals, but Pique played only 45 minutes and was in the second half of the team’s match once morest Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League.
