
Barcelona will present the financial accounts at the Shareholders' meeting and will recognize a debt of over 207 million euros, most of it for purchases made in the summer of 2022 and with deferred payments.
Barça report a short-term debt of €89m to be paid this season, while they have a long-term debt of €118m. These are priority payments to be made, because otherwise, other clubs could sue the Catalans and thus would be prevented from doing the market.
" Barcelona cannot accuse of the crime that is presumed in the initial phase and in the closing, as it would accuse itself. This is because Barcelona as a club has been accused of the crime of the agreement in the case and the legal entity Barcelona, for the crime of sports corruption , "said the judge.
He explained that there was no separate investigation into Laporta “since in that first stage of Laporta, payments were also made to the Negreira family through companies that the latter used as intermediaries. Therefore, Laporta's behavior in this matter is identical to those of the presidents who came after him ", the judge wrote in explaining the situation, making it clear to the current head of Barcelona that he could not blame Rosell and Bartomeu alone.
" It is not ethically acceptable for Laporta to accuse Presidents Rosell and Bartomeu of the crime of unfair administration, when there are clear indications that Laporta committed the same actions as the following presidents did" .
The highest debt is to Leeds United for Rafinha. Barça must pay 24 million until the end of this year and another 38 million in the long term. For Lewandowski, 10 million euros remain to be paid this year and 21 million in the long term, while for Ferran Torres, bought in January 2022, 13 million euros remain to be paid this year and other future installments of 26 million .
Another of the deferred expenses is related to the former Sevilla player, Kunde. Specifically, Barcelona will have to pay 11 million euros this year and 24 million in the long term.
It was the judge of the case himself, Joaquin Aguirre Lopez, who rejected Barcelona's appeal that the former managers should be blamed for this case. He recalled that in the past, during the period when Barcelona regularly paid Negreira, the president of the club was Joan Laporta himself.
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