No money for transfers, but …: FC Barcelona dreams of Messi return

No money for transfers, but …
FC Barcelona dreams of Messi return

FC Barcelona may not have any money, but they have big dreams. After the return of Dani Alves, President Joan Laporta also dreams of a Messi comeback at the Camp Nou. But first the Catalans have to get through the season. That’s not that easy.

The financially troubled FC Barcelona cannot sign any new players for the time being due to the league’s salary cap after the signing of coach Xavi. Only if players from the traditional club were to move to other clubs would there be financial scope for newcomers again, said football director Mateu Alemany. “It’s just that we can still register Xavi and his coaching staff, but then there is nothing left,” said Alemany at the presentation of right-back Dani Alves in Barcelona.

The previously without a club Alves had returned to his previous club at the age of 38, but for a – according to media reports – relatively low salary. Since the end of the summer transfer on August 31, the Catalans, who are also in crisis in terms of sport, have had to cope with salary increases for Ansu Fati and Pedri González as well as the compensation for the Dutch coach Ronald Koeman and his team, who were prematurely sacked in October, wrote the Spanish newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” “.

Alemany had however emphasized that there were still one and a half months until the winter transfer window opened on January 1 and that various options were being worked on. “We’ll see on January 1st,” he emphasized without giving any details. Mundo Deportivo reported that Xavi was interested in Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling.

And of course it doesn’t end there. President Joan Laporta did not want to rule out anything at the Alves presentation: not even the return of prodigal sons Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi, who had to leave the Chaos Club last summer due to the financial emergency. “Age is just a number,” said Laporta: “They are two great players. I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. They are still playing and are under contract with other clubs. You never know …”

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