The Catalan daily Sport assured last week that "the arrival of Coutinho would place Barça outside the limits allowed by financial fair play". The Blaugrana, who have spent € 307m since this summer (including € 160m for Coutinho) and recovered € 222m from the Neymar clause, have a negative balance of transfers. The Barcelona leaders got to pay Liverpool a quarter of Coutinho's transfer (€ 40m) as a bonus, as they had done with Dortmund for Ousmane Dembélé (€ 105m and similar bonuses), in order to spread the impact of these operations over several seasons.
Club officials must now apply to reduce their payroll, Coutinho's annual salary of around € 14 million a year, compared to € 35 million net for Lionel Messi, of which € 10 million corresponds to his signing bonus of € 50 million. € spread over the next five seasons. Arda Turan (€ 8.5m) is expected to join a Turkish club, while Javier Mascherano is about to engage with Hebei Fortuna (China). Little used, Rafinha, Deulofeu and Aleix Vidal could imitate them this winter.
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