Barcelona adds dollars to try to retain Lionel Messi

The economic situation of the club is so serious that, as Joan Laporta told in his first press conference, Barcelona can only use 25% of the transfer income to reinforce the template.

Barcelona accumulates a debt of more than 1,000 million euros and needs to cut salaries and amortizations before being able to register new players for the 2021-22 season.

The English entity and Barcelona have reached an agreement and the Whites will pay 15 million euros to take the 24-year-old left-back, who has had several offers from Premier League and Serie A teams.

Of the 12.75 million to enter, Barcelona will be able to accumulate only 3.2 million to the transfer market. The economic situation of the club is so serious that, as Joan Laporta told in his first press conference and later confirmed by the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, the Blaugrana entity can only use 25% of the transfer income to reinforce the template.