Van Gaal and Pérez Farguell begins today to plan the next season
The general director demands a reduction of the salary mass of the club of 36 million Eurus
Francesc Perearnau / BARCELONA
03:00 h.El FC Barcelona will reduce in 36 million Eurus (6.000 million pesetas) its salary mass the next season. The adjustment is part of an ambitious plan of austerity outlined by the general director of the FC Barcelona, Xavier Pérez Farguell, and supported by the president Joan Gaspart that will be today on the work table with the new responsible technician of the club, Louis Van Gaal. In the first official meeting that Van Gaal will take place today with Pérez Farguell and with its sport advisers, Carles Rexach and Joaquim Raffled, the Dutchman will plan in function of some fortísimas economic restrictions that cannot only determine the exit of very important players, but also to condition to the drop, in number and in quality, the fichajes for the next season. The plan of austerity will affect tambíén to the rest of the professional sections of basket, handball and hockey skates, but the soccer will be for its magnitude the most affected one.
Van Gaal will face big limitations when restructuring the insole. Although it seems clear that the players with higher records as Rivaldo (10,2 million Eurus) or Kluivert (6 million Eurus) they have all the numbers to be passed over at this time there are not offers for the Brazilian neither Patrick Kluivert for suparte he/she has any intention of abandoning the club azulgrana at the moment.
The same thing happens with the rest of the players that more expensive they leave to the club like Alfonso or Luis Enrique that you/they are about the 3 million record Eurus yearly, and that neither they want to leave. Although there are players for those that the club has received offers in most of the cases the clubs buyers they finish throwing behind when they are informed of the contractual conditions of the players.
The assembling
The economic report and the sport report should be assembled, that which constitutes today the first, great and complicated challenge of Louis goes Gaal. He/she even can that Pérez Farguell doesn't accept to close any fichajes negotiation until several transfers have been ventilated. It is necessary to keep in mind, to give an example that the march of Rivaldo would reduce in half (18 million Eurus) the economic urgencies of the club. Everything points to that Van Gaal will only be able to have two finally to three fichajes, in function of the summer market.
According to Pérez's plan Farguell, this important reduction is the only measure of possible crash against the serious budgetary deviation that suffers the club azulgrana from the season 2000-01. The fortísima investment in fichajes from the arrival of Gaspart to the presidency, estimated in 180 million Eurus (30.000 of pesetas), as well as the renovations and contract amplifications as those of Luis Enrique, Kluivert and Rivaldo, they have located the annual costs of exploitation in about 54 million stocking Eurus (9.000 of pesetas) above the revenues. For the next season the foreseen deficit of exploitation can reach the 72 million Eurus (12.000 millions), if you doesn't begin to act now
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