FC Barcelona: A Series of Unfortunate Events
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A long pass down the middle from Gerard Piqué, beating Nacho Fernandez, and a sleek layoff by Ferran Torres to a highflying Aubameyang was all that was needed to sink Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. So ecstatic was the Barcelona team under Xavi that the club vice-captain Gerard Piqué – or “El Presidente” as he is fondly called – took to twitter to inform the world, “WE ARE BACK.”
It appeared the ghost of Lionel Messi’s departure in August 2021 and the financial crisis hovering over the Catalan-based club, which first started brewing in March 2021 was about to be history.
It was a confident and promising end to the 2021/2022 season for Barcelona that even rivals were beginning to believe that the “Xavi project” was going to work out as anticipated by the Catalans.
Initiated by President Joan Laporta alongside his Director of Professional Football, Mateu Alemany, the “Xavi project” saw the club’s executives going all out to invest in Head Coach Xavi Hernandez’s strategy, ensuring he was able to secure every player he requested. Despite their financial situation; the “Xavi project” resulted in a season of off-the-roof accounting.
In June 2013, Neymar Jr arrived at the club – in what remains one of the most controversial transfers in the history of the beautiful game – alongside Luis Suarez from Liverpool. Both forwards teaming up with Lionel Messi created one of the best-attacking tridents football ever saw. And just like a flash, the glory days were back in full swing at the Camp Nou. It didn’t take long, though, before the phrase “Oh darkness my old friend,” became the reality of FC Barcelona, as they failed to keep up with the standards required by their financial books to keep spending like they always did.
Barcelona couldn’t have predicted what would hit them next as the world fell into an unprecedented global pandemic in 2020. So devastating was the effect of the pandemic on Barcelona that the club resorted to players deferring wages and taking pay cuts to help the football club stay solvent. It would only get worse for the Spanish club, as their debts rose to over €1.3 billion with a huge chunk of it repayable in the short term.
FC Barcelona increase their gap from Real Madrid to 11 points as the former are alone at the top of LaLiga. Bet on League Leaders Barcelona at Camp Nou Stadium and place a bet on your favorite Spanish LaLiga team today on iLOT Bet.
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