Mundo Deportivo: Barcelona to Learn New Squad Cost Limit Tomorrow, All Clubs to Be Informed on Same Day

According to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona will learn its new squad cost limit this Thursday. Previously, La Liga set the club's limit at 432.807 million euros.

After the transfer market closed on September 1, Barcelona and the other 41 professional football clubs will learn their new squad cost limits this Thursday. La Liga set Barcelona's previous limit at 432.807 million euros in February last year, while the figure was 351.284 million euros nearly a year earlier, an increase of 81 million euros.

Unlike in previous summer transfer windows, Barcelona operated under the '1:1' rule this summer, allowing it to make signings and register players normally. The club spent nearly 175 million euros on the arrivals of players such as Anthony Gordon, Adeyemi, Rodri, Jesse Bisiwu, Hamza Abdulkarim and Jesus. It should be noted that Cancelo joined as a free agent.

In addition to these signings and the resulting wage costs affecting the squad cost limit, Barcelona also significantly reduced its wage burden through several player departures this summer. Ferran Torres first moved to Paris Saint-Germain for a transfer fee of around 48.5 million euros; Fati moved to Monaco, while Tommy Marks joined Braga, with both transfers worth 11 million euros each.

In addition, Hector Fort's move to Real Sociedad is expected to bring Barcelona around 8.5 million euros, Hofre Torrents' transfer to Ajax brought 6 million euros, and Birghili's move to Club Brugge generated 4.5 million euros. Alvaro Cortes, Inaki Pena, Guille Fernandez and Toni Fernandez also completed other transfer operations. The total income from these deals exceeded 100 million euros.

Loaned players are also a factor that needs to be considered. After Araujo joined Liverpool on loan, the English club covered the Uruguayan player's full salary, significantly reducing Barcelona's wage burden. Rashford's loan ending and his return to England this summer had a similar effect.

In addition, Polish player Lewandowski left after his contract expired, helping Barcelona free up the highest-paid first-team wage slot. Apart from generating transfer income, Fati's departure also freed significant wage space because Barcelona continued to cover part of his salary during his loan spell at Monaco.

Casado's loan departure barely freed any wage space for Barcelona because most of his salary during his time at Deportivo La Coruna was still covered by Barcelona. The same applies to Ter Stegen's loan move to Ajax.

Beyond these factors, the club's financial balance must also include this season's VIP box revenue. Barcelona will not immediately return to Montjuic this season, so it is expected to receive around 70 million euros in related income, an amount that has already been audited.

In addition, Barcelona hopes to obtain 210 million euros through a television rights debt issuance. The payment will arrive in two installments, with the first executed in July this year and the second planned for November.

Finally, Barcelona also hopes to generate income through agreements with Ohana Development and Babylon Park. These two agreements will be announced at the club's members' assembly on September 19.

La Liga president Javier Tebas has emphasized throughout the summer that Barcelona is handling all aspects of its work properly. Under normal circumstances, Barcelona will see its squad cost limit increase this Thursday, leaving only Real Madrid with a higher limit than Barcelona. According to the previously released figures, Real Madrid's squad cost was 761 million euros.