€60m player’s registration at Barcelona remains uncertain despite Nike deal | OneFootball

For the last few years, one of the objectives most eagerly pursued by the FC Barcelona top brass has been to mitigate the club’s financial problems and at least return the entity to the 1:1 status in La Liga salary margin rules.

These financial issues have caused the Catalan club a lot of trouble, and the most recent manifestation of these troubles was experienced last summer when the Blaugranes struggled to get their star signing of the summer transfer window, Dani Olmo, registered with La Liga.

The Spaniard’s registration was ultimately achieved after the long-term injury suffered by Andreas Christensen. However, it was clear at that time that Barcelona will have to get a significant cash injection to be able to keep Olmo registered once the Danish defender had also returned to action.

Previously, one of the solutions to this problem was believed to be the agreement between Barcelona and Nike, which the two parties have been negotiating for quite some time now.

An agreement with Nike has almost been reached, but SPORT reports that Barcelona will still not be able to get Dani Olmo registered with La Liga even with this agreement.

Although the exact numbers of the new agreement are still not known, it is reported that Barcelona will see their income from this source increase by €45 million per season between 2024 and 2028 with this new deal.

However, in terms of fair play, there will be only an increase of around €10 million, and Barcelona had included most of the expected income from this deal in their 2024-25 budget.

This increase is not enough to get the €60m-rated Spanish midfielder registered in January, and the Catalans will have to work on some other options to meet this objective and get back to 1:1 status.

The most advanced operation currently is finding an investor for 49% shares of Bridgeburg, which will earn the club around €200 million, of which €55 million have already been earned.

Another option for Barcelona would be to sell one of their first-team players, which would not only provide some income in terms of transfer fees but also provide them with some salary space.