The cases of Alves, Araujo and Christensen resulted in three sanctions for Barça, which appealed the three
The LaLiga’s tight financial control remains a difficult obstacle for FC Barcelona to overcome. In particular, the regulations regarding financial “fair play”. As published by the journalist Sergi Escudero in the newspaper ‘Ara’, Barça were penalized up to three times for exceeding “fair play”. Those three sanctions imposed by the employer’s economic control commission have already been appealed by the Barça club. According to “Ara,” these sanctions came for three episodes during the 2021-2022 academic year. For exceeding the salary limit with signature of Dani Alves, who signed for the minimum wage; for the signing of Danish centre-back Andreas Christensen, who arrived as a free agent after parting ways with Chelsea (the employer believes this affects last year despite only being registered this year); and finally, he was sanctioned regarding the extension of centre-back Ronald Araújo’s contract. The three punishments were 800,000 euros.
Always according to the story in the newspaper ‘Ara’, Barça reacted to these sanctions by submitting several appeals to the UEFA Second Instance Licensing Committee of the RFEF, the body that has been responsible for adjudicating these types of issues until now. Oddly enough, this mechanism could change in the near future, after the last meeting of the League in Dubai, which FC Barcelona decided not to attend exactly.
‘Levers’ without effect to re-sign
The newspaper ‘Ara’ also refers to the restriction that the famous ‘levers’ that Barça signed last summer will have on the market. The League allows Barça, or any other club, to activate these famous ‘levers’ (sale of club assets), but it only allows 5% of the money entered to be used to sign and renew player contracts. The exception is when the asset to be sold is a new business line that the entity has created. Then the club has the right to use the total extra income.
Source: Goal