by With only two weeks to play until the start of the new season, Barcelona has not yet recorded all of its first team players.
The new summer signatures Joan Garcia and Marcus Rashford, as well as Wojciech Szczesny and Gerard Martín, are not currently listed as recorded with the Liga.
The club’s financial situation remains a key factor. Barcelona exceeds its salary ceiling, but the recent changes made to the liga financial control rules give them more flexibility.
The new regulations allow teams to register temporarily up to three players – a transfer and two free agents – with a “provisional visa” while their finances are set. It is a crucial life buoy for the Catalan club.
According to El Confidential, Barcelona is confident to record all their players before the first day of the season.
One of the club’s strategies involves a potential solution concerning the goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.
Barcelona hopes to record Joan Garcia in time (photo of Paul Miller / Getty Images)
The club would have sought to classify its injury as a “reoperation”, which could allow them to use 50% of its salary – around five million euros – to record a new player.
The club requests an agreement on medical reports with Ter Stegen before submitting them to the Liga Medical Commission for approval.
In addition to that, the club continues other avenues to generate income and free up wage ceiling space.
This includes a new sponsorship agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, worth 44 million euros over four years, as well as sales of Pablo Torre, Pau Victor and Alex Valle.
While the club had hoped to avoid selling a major player, a transfer that would generate significant capital gains is considered an ideal solution.
