Spending gap
It is by far the highest LaLiga top ahead of Sevilla (200 million euros, 233 million dollars) and Atlético de Madrid (171 million euros, 199 million dollars). Barça, meanwhile, has the 7th highest salary limit in the championship.
Some figures that give an idea of the gap that now separates whites and Catalans in the accounting aspect: the limit of Real Madrid is 642 million euros (748 million dollars) higher than that of Barcelona.
“Real Madrid was perfectly prepared to sign (Kylian) Mbappé or any other player,” Guerra said, wondering if Real Madrid could have faced this operation.
The corporate general director of LaLiga explained that Real Madrid had sufficient spending capacity because it contributed its own funds from positive results from other seasons and praised the economic management carried out in these last two seasons impacted by the pandemic.
“If we add the results obtained from the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons, I think I remember that the sum of both exercises was a result of one million euros”Guerra said.
“They had managed to balance their expenses with their income during the two seasons so as not to have losses, and there is no secret, the secret is player transfers, player sales, salary reductions, it has been an exemplary economic management,” he said. .
Valencia, the lowest limit
Like Barça, Valencia, also subjected to severe economic tensions, has seen his salary cap drop by 72 million euros ($ 84 million) from last season.
It went from 103 million (120 million dollars) to 30 million euros (35 million dollars), the lowest limit in the entire LaLiga, behind modest clubs such as Cádiz, Alavés, Elche, Levante or Rayo Vallecano.
Updated several times throughout each season, the salary limit is the amount that clubs cannot exceed with their salary mass, in which case they could be financially sanctioned.
The salary cap is calculated based on the difference between income (advertising, sale of players, sponsorships, TV rights, etc) and structural costs (non-sports salaries, operating costs, purchase of players, etc).