The Insane Business of Barcelona
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- Shout out to our friend Mario from The Generalist for letting us adapt his article for a video. If you enjoyed this story, make sure to check out the full written piece: www.generalist.com/briefing/b...
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00:00 The Business of Barcelona
00:56 The Rise
04:52 Elefant Blau
08:09 The Fall
13:13 Rise again?
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Putting Laporta in the same picture as Bartomeu and Sandro is an insult to how much he has worked to bring this club back.
no he fits very well
Laporta has sold Barça’s future for small short term gain. This is not going to end well for Barça.
@@andyblue415 even if that's the case they can always be sold to an ultra-rich
@@andyblue415 you don't know that my friend - that's why it's called a gamble!!!
Exactly what I came here to comment. This channel out Laporta in the same sentence as Bartomeu and Rossellini as the men who were responsible for Barca’s fall which was completely false.
As a Cule all I am gonna say is let Laporta Cook 👀🍿🍿
Well, you can do nothing about it, he doesn't even know you exist😅
@@felizvolantez2699 😂😂
Nothing is free, all that money will eventually come back to bite Barca one day 😢
@@felizvolantez2699 Ok? 😅 And?
@@3INLONG the catalan government will never allow anything to harm Barcelona
It's cruel irony that one of Barcelona's biggest blessings Laporta came with its worst two devils Bartomeu and Rosell and how these two devils actually emerged from the good times
Indeed. What an irony. People generally tend to forget Sandro Rosell misadventures over barto. I argue that he was the one starting this decay.
Moreover, 1st time he came in 2003 after Joan Gaspart and Josep Lluís Nuñez, another couple who half destroyed the club. They got rid of Cruyff like Rosell and Bartomeu got rid of Guardiola.
As someone rightly said "Hard times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, and weak people create hard times"
You can add Laporta to that list, during first stint as President his financial mismanagement left the club €442 million in debt and his board reported a loss of €11 million in his final year, however it was actually €77 million!
1. Josep Maria Bartomeu thought that bringing big names is enough. Which has backfired season upon season.
2. Covid worsened the situation and exposed his senseless decisions.
3. Laporta has to do something to bring back the club back on track else club will be doomed. All the levers can be bought back after raising funds. (not the ideal one but necessary step to safeguard Barça legacy).
4. Xavi, the man who turned tables.
That man, Bartomeu disturbed everything in Barça.
@@bharatavarsha10k sandro rossell too
@@Ibrakadibra 4-0
Xavi turned the tables? Yes. Got knocked out of 2 European competitions early. Great achievement!
@@zeus3086 It takes time and we were a bit unlucky too
Anyways it's our first title in 4 years so he surely turned the table
Coutinho deal was such a terrible deal for both Barca and the player. As Liverpool fan I am happy that Liverpool was only winner in this deal. I remember Barca made some weir d offer at first and how Coutinho acted as if his new signed deal just six months ago meant nothing
That's Bartomeu and Rosell for you. Their main goal was just to look good and better than Laporta and it didn't matter whether they were making good long term decisions
Coutinhass was worst buy
I liked Coutinho I mean I wanted for him to succeed but I was happy that he failed in the UCL in that game against LFC. I was happy when he won it all with Bayern
Dembele was almost just as bad. Both snatched from current glory at their respective incumbent clubs.
As a Barca fan, we trust in Laporta. I believe in him. A lot of impatient rival fans don't understand how good he is. Especially because of Tebas being a baby. Instead of being charged for paying refs, we are about to make money from it. Laporta has slammed and tried to expose Tebas a lot, and taught him a lesson. So as of recent, Tebas has been acting calm, and nice towards Barca to prevent being exposed. I trust Xavi, I trust Laporta. No matte how much rival fans cry, I love this club, especially when it's run by the right people. VISCA BARCA.
Lifelong Barcelona supporter from North East of India ❤💙 Been supporting since Ronaldinho years. The fact that Barca has excelled so much with homegrown players by following a certain philosophy made me fall in love with this club. I'm very privileged to have visited Camp Nou and watch the match against Valencia back in 2015 where Barca won 2-0 with Suarez scoring in the first minute and Messi scoring in the last minute. Certainly Mes Que Un Club!
Forever love ❤💙
It's 💙❤️ not ❤️💙.
Blau-grana....
As a Barca fan, we trust in Laporta. I believe in him. A lot of impatient rival fans don't understand how good he is. Especially because of Tebas being a baby. Instead of being charged for paying refs, we are about to make money from it. Laporta has slammed and tried to expose Tebas a lot, and taught him a lesson. So as of recent, Tebas has been acting calm, and nice towards Barca to prevent being exposed. I trust Xavi, I trust Laporta. No matte how much rival fans cry, I love this club, especially when it's run by the right people. VISCA BARCA.
Val lagil comment tu Sai. Moi Barca 2008 manor pora sai asu. Happy to hear that you visited camp nou. Much love from tinsukia
Laporta already saved Barca from Bankruptcy and I believe he can do it again.
LMAO They are even in a much worse position than before because of the levers and the terrible deal for the renovation of the stadium. They know they won't be able to pay it all back, so this is why Laporta is not that much concerned about spending as he knows his successor will have no choice but to sell the club
@@masecaccm8372 As a barca fan, I would like Barca to be sold to Qataris or emiratis. Enough of tyranny of these socios who elect people like Barto and Rossell. With blank cheque in hand and big spending, Barcelona would finally become 2011 Barcelona.
@@nightking8490 I would laugh if Qatar ends up buying Barcelona after the controversy with the sponsorship and then how they took away their best players. Barca would never be used as a symbol and weapon for catalan independentismo and I doubt the socios will vote for this
@@masecaccm8372well when it's come to money , everything can turn to be a weapon. Same with Barcelona. If Barcelona were to be sold,there will be no shortage of big buyers. In that case, socios will also surrender.
All I care about big cheques and spending to make it a formidable team of the past.
@@masecaccm8372 You have zero business knowledge. Barca didn't sell significant shares of their assets. They sold 25% of the broadcasting rights and 49% of Barca merchandises this Barca are still the main owners of these assets. Secondly the loan that they have taken will be paid off once the Espai Barca project is up and running. Do you think banks like Goldman Sachs will give a loan to you if they don't thing you can repay them? If you think that way then you are the biggest fool I have met. With over 250m euros that Barca will generate with the Espai Barca project they will be able to repay the loan that they have taken for the stadium. So yeah you fools can doubt Barca and it's management but those who understand football and business know that Laporta pulled a mastermind move to secure the present and the future of FC Barcelona FORCA BARCA 💙❤️
I actually love this channel so much. No other channel like it on CZcams.
It's pretty good 😉
You need to turn this into a series with other clubs, this video is incredible.
Give the board under Laporta, and the Team under Xavi time. It seemed like Barça was done, but look at them now. They have just won the league title with 14 points difference to second place Real Madrid, signed the biggest sponsor deal in football history and now have one of the youngest Top teams all around Europe.
Imagine Messi coming back, imagine the scenes and the revenue. It’s a risky strategy but so far it has worked, gloriously.
Messi se fue a la MLS
Europa League x2
This channel is amazing, I love learning about the business behind the football. Keep up the good work!
Very happy that you're here! 🙂
GOOD but I don't like that Laporta gets put as the same level as the crooks of Rosell and Bartomeu. He is the one saving the club from those two that were sinking it. Grande Laporta, Visca el Barca!
Not a Barca fan but I don't know how people can hate Laporta. That's a man of character and conviction fighting for a dream which these idiots don't understand.
Laporta is the Spanish Saul goodman
@@ademeda better than that rat Bartomeu
Rosell y Bartomeu es lo peor que le pasó al Barça, con ellos se fue Pep, ellos dejaron al Barcelona en la situación que encontró Laporta en 2021
Peores incluso que a Gaspart y Núñez, quienes se cargaron a Cruyff
Never knew that FC Barcelona was founded by a German-Swiss named Hans. Thank you for this very informative and entertaining video yet again.
Joan Gamper
Very informative video! This season is the first year I've been able to watch European club football. I kept hearing about Barcelona's debt and having to sell off a bunch of players and so, forth, but never knew why. This pretty much explained it all. Very nice video!
Glad we could answer a few questions for you! 🙂
Sandro Rosell was the one who basically kicked Guardiola out. That's when the FCB debacle began and Bartomeu made it worse. Two misfortunes for FC Barcelona.
Damn, elefants blaus is a name i haven't heard in a long while
As a Barca fan, we trust in Laporta. I believe in him. A lot of impatient rival fans don't understand how good he is. Especially because of Tebas being a baby. Instead of being charged for paying refs, we are about to make money from it. Laporta has slammed and tried to expose Tebas a lot, and taught him a lesson. So as of recent, Tebas has been acting calm, and nice towards Barca to prevent being exposed. I trust Xavi, I trust Laporta. No matte how much rival fans cry, I love this club, especially when it's run by the right people. VISCA BARCA.
Europa merchants
@@A_r78 better than being humiliated by an oil club
@@poisonskull3832 14 > 0
@@A_r78 doesn't change the fact that you lot got humiliated 😂
@@poisonskull3832Barcelona fans really can't talk about humiliation 😂
the spotify sponsorship alone would cover 40% of their debt; but we all know you don't spend everything in repaying loans, but to find other ways to reduce expenditures and increase income; in that sense Laporta has done a great job reducing salary mass (getting rid of no less than 17 players from the 2022 squad), calling up La Masia talent and bringing free transfers, all of which with players that came to play for less money than what was offered by EPL clubs (Kunde, Christensen, Raphina, Kesie, Lewandosky) Laporta has been and continues to be the greatest president Can Barca has ever had; his high risk high reward approach can be questionable, but he already brought two trophies this year; all of this in a league that does everything in their power to satisfy every craving some club in white has!!!! the guy loves the cub and defends it like no one else!!
Your comment should be pinned on top
Hope this comment of yours get seen by more.
@@finnbellFCB This video is misleading there is no rise. Spotify deal pays for nothing its the 25% TV future revenue sales is what Bacelona is banking on.
I had no idea Barca took out another bank loan on top of what they were already owing to the banks. I hope it works because this might bankrupt the club in future
They will earn an extra 300 million euros per season from the stafium
So in a few seasons no benefits xd😅
250m extra can pay off both loans in 12 years if we use just the extra and we'd still rise with the same trajectory as we were in 2011 under Laporta. We can also include some non-extra revenue and make it 400m a year and we can pay it all off in less than 8 years and be completely debt free even while spending 100m every season on transfers.
@@mxn5132 the stadium will cost many millions so it would mean at least 3 or 4 years without benefits XD 😅, and your numbers are very wrong man XD but if you believe them be lying to yourself xd
Not an extra loan, they basically took a 1.5bn long term loan to clear all their short term debts as well as renovate a stadium. The good part of the deal is that the loan bank gets a certain percentage of the newly renovated and expanded stadium earnings as payment for 25 years after the official launch in 2025. The stadium is also expected to bring in 250million
I love this channel, is very good content told in a way that entertains and informs about interesting topics!!
Exactly what we're trying to do! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@@AthleticInterestplease make a video on ipl
Was waiting for this one thanks Athletic Interest you made my day
The wait is... over! 😄
This type of videos are truly the best. Would like to see your analysis of Juventus financial troubles and their fall, more detailed video about Bayern's story and how they managed to become the force they are, and about German football in general.
Thank you very much for this well put together video 👏 and for sticking to the facts
Wow, this video gives a fascinating glimpse into the complex world of Barcelona's business scene. It's incredible how economic dynamics shape such a vibrant city. Thanks for shedding light on this intriguing topic!
You're very welcome 🙂
With this video (my first )u have earned my follow, comment and like
I love this channel
Not getting tired to praise your work. As always Unbelieveable content.
That's very kind! Thank you 🙂
Great work and great content
i dont come here for content i come for the voice. its like having eargasm while listening it.
Such a masterpiece as always as a Barca fan I see the future is bright ❤️💙
Hi
Wish I had some of those economic levers 😅
Really love your video production,🔥🔥
Can you point me to where one can learn video editing like this??
Great content !
Thanks very much 😃
Thats a great video with proper description and explanation!
Thanks Daniyal!
I feel patriotic, seeing a German have one of the best football/soccer based channels on CZcams.
I mean, patriotic is maybe the wrong word, but I’m really happy. Especially for him.
This content is so good!
Etwas Patriotismus hat noch niemandem geschadet :-)
Bruh, laporta is one heck of a big brain. Catalan is such a rich land. They gave birth to laporta, pep, etc.
Goated channel with the best sports analysis✨🔝...Visca el Barcaaa!!!🔵🔴😍
Thanks very much! 🙌
Keep up the great work!🤝👊🇰🇪
6:01 the Sopranos moving into the picture caught me off guard 😂.
btw, I for sure thought there would be some kind of segue from Barcelona to a Squarespace ad :D
Athletic Interest post a video, and we all watch, love this channel!
We're very grateful about that! Thank you 🙂
If all this credit and interest cannot be paid the socos are wiped and it become property of some international bank. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
There is a nice video to make about how the Messi era while very successful on the sport side was also the roots for a massive financial problem. Messi salary (was completely disproportional even compared to CR7) made other team players demand out of market salaries ending with a mass salary that was absurd.
I have seen lots of comment requesting for this video about Barcelona transfer and now You guys Delivered. Like always another great video.
We really do appreciate suggestions! 🙂
Finally a video that i needed most
Here at last! 😅
I became a football pundit among my school friends, because of Athletic interest ♥️😜
Haha! Glad it gives you extra clout! 😄
Thank you for another fantastic video! Looking forward to see what happens next with Barca.
It won't be boring, either way 😅
@@AthleticInterest so true!
The reference to One Piece is incredible 🤣 Wealth, fame, power... Gol D. Roger had it all
Guys, you’re amazing!!! What a job! What a video, man!! Everything is perfect! Congratulations, really !!!! 👏👏
You're so welcome! 🙌
Fantastic video this. Absolutely fascinating
Thanks a lot, Padarabinda! 😀
People need to do their research on Laporta, he is just as slimy as Sandro and Barto. The hiring of pep and emergence of the golden generation saved his legacy in his first term. As for his 2nd term, he has wagered Barcelona's future for short term gain, only time will tell if this will backfire but you can already see it crumbling.
Strong men create prosperous times, prosperous times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create strong men. The same cycle happend here unfortunately
*Barcelona is the most beautiful 😍 club of all! It's colours, it's history, it's stadium, it's culture, it's rise nd fall nd the most important of all, their football philosophy* 🙌💯❤️💙
My dream is to someday visit the Camp Nou nd see Leo Messi play at the stadium with my naked eyes...🥺
Barcelona was really great when Chelsea eliminated this cheating club.
@@TonyMontanaDSlol same relegation battling Chelsea.😂😂😂😂. All their success built on Russian blood money. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@nightking8490 butt hurt much?
@@TonyMontanaDSlol without Russian blood money, Chelsea is nothing more than a championship club.
As soon as your Russian daddy's money left, you were exposed as the fraud you were. 😂😂😂😂😂
You were lucky Tuchel saved u or else Chelsea would have been relegated. What a massive loss to football that it didn't happen. 😉
I could watch these videos all day . Elite content 👏🏼
A whole day! Wow 😄
Thanks so much, Miguel!
This is a proper montage!
This is so refreshing and beautifully put together
Thank you very much! 🙂
This channel is criminally underrated. Great job, athletic interest! One last thing, please don't ever change your narrator. His voice is gold.
In a job for life 😄
Excelente vídeo
As much as I don't follow sports, this channel is pure gold with the info
It's important for us that the videos are enjoyable for everyone, so that's great to hear
@@AthleticInterest and also informative👌🏽👌🏽
I love this channel. I just can't get enough of their content
We're really glad you're enjoying it! 🙂
never miss footy content from athletic interest
The latest instalment 😄
Bro really started the video with the "Wealth, fame, power. Gol D. Roger..." 😭😭
Love your videos - another utterly compelling tale from the wacky world of Sport!
It can be pretty wacky! 😄
didnt barca also sign griezmann for like 120m as well ?
Yes
10:58 absolutely love this part whenever the couthino toipic arises its every time talking abt vvd ,alisson thanks neymar thanks barca
The decisions Laoprta's making r either make or break!
We might be the best again or we might go back to the slums again! 🥺🙌❤️💙
Do you know winning titles and playing well generate money?
@@favourosinachi3679 Nd u know selling parts of Barca makes the investment companies take a large chunk of it?! 🤷🏻♂️
So, if we end up as Chelsea without results then we're gonna rot with another 1B$ debt that might be unpayable!!
@@reader5939 Atleast we will be in many places no matter how much they take
@@reader5939 Which is not gonna happen you know it🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️✌️🫢
Amazing
great video interest man👍
Love your work!
Thanks a lot! 🙂
I love the voice of the guy narrating Athletic Interest videos.
Almost asmr xD
We've got crossover appeal 😄
Every foundation will be shaken, will see in the future if Barca's foundation is firm enough.
I’m glad you guys did this video. I’ve been a cule for a long time now over a decade and I can genuinely admit that knowing our history like this helps understand the situation we are in today
"Media Rights are your most valuable asset".
I disagree with this one. This is like year 2023, not 2000s where things like this was true.
Barcelona got like 160mil Euros from La Liga TV revenue, losing that one 'only' cut 40 mil from your total revenue per year. For a big club, this is basically a small change, a price of 1 elite player's wages or a price on mid player's contract. This risk is not as big as some people and medias want you to think, as it only cut about 7,5% of Barca's revenues IN COVID-19 pandemic, which was made small because there are basically few revenues in matches. In normal state, this would probably cost Barca only 4-5% of their revenue.
The thing is, big clubs didn't depend on TV rights solely anymore, they diversify in matchdays revenue, UCL, UCL TV rights, and many others. Barca's main problem was the salary cap and as you said, failed transfers, not their revenue at all.
if i was laporta i would do :
1) get a loan of 1.35 bilion with installments by 35 years
2) pay all the current debt using that new long term debt
This channel deserves more views
Agreed! 😅
He is Genius tbh because he also did same in 2003 ❤
Big fan of Athletic Interest but very less videos updated on this channel is frustrating
The only reason because Laporta left first is because he couldn't be president again after 2 mandates. That's a rule that he himself impose to the club to avoid situations like Nuñez being 20 years in charge. We would have voted him again though.
This sounds like an episode of Sucesssion. The Spotify angle shows just how crazy modern football ownership has become, the Spotify billionaire couldn't get enough cash together to buy Arsenal, then the maybe 5th best team in the Premiership. Imagine owning a ubiquitous Internet company and not being able to stroll in and buy a not quite top football club. So now he's investing in Barca. Could be a good move.
The next video on IPL please, its media rights per match have topped the likes of premier league and mlb.
In short “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
What's the outro music ?
I love this club and this channel!
And hopefully this video! 😄
Quality Content ❣
Thanks a lot, Hannan! 🙂
Biggest club in the world. The stuff this club has to deal with all while competing with Real Madrid its insane.
So down fall of Barca started after appointing Rosell as president. Laporta is goat🔥🔥
"Cryff built the Cathedral. It's our job to maintain it"- Pep
I was here with Barca in the best times ..
I also have been with Barca in the worst times
Now we will rise back to best again ... powerful then ever 🙌💯🔥🔥
Visca Barca 💙❤️
Nice video Athletic Interest.
Thanks, Shubhojit! Have a great weekend
Buen video. Pero hay un error: entre los presidentes Núñez y Laporta estuvo Gaspart.
Cool works
Strange poltical circle for such a massive club
Bartemeu is the guy who ruined our beautiful club and he is the reason why we are here in this mess.
Vital Info Note: Broadcasting rights have a re-buy clause that will be paid by the club asap as voted by the socís 👍
Athletic interested can your next video please be about Martin braithwaite business deals
you should start a podcast and just make it the mp3 file for the video
How does rebuilding the stadium generate revenue for the club? I always thought it was an unncessary expense when the club was already in financial crisis. Doesnt the current stadium have the capacity to hold 90,000+ as it is? Hopefully someone can explain this to me. Also Rosell and his puppet Bartomeu put this club in financial ruin. I read that the the clubs books must be balanced before the current presidents term is over. Therefore if the club was in debt... then Bartomeu was supposed to repay it out of his own pocket before he left his post. What happened to that? I think Laporta knows that aside from the sentimental and sporting reasons, bringing Messi back to Barca would be huge in terms of revenue addition for the club. I hope Laporta being a lawyer put a clause in the contract that at a future state they would have the option of buying back their broadcasting rights.
more VIP tickets =more revenue. And more revenue from restaurants on site. Bartomeu didn't have to repay anything unfortunately - the rule you are talkina about is about loses not debt and he left before end of the season when most losses were generated (he was voted out by socios in the middle of the season) so he can argue that they arę loses of new board. abou tv right- we sold 25% for 25 years. Then I think we can get them back but Im not sure if we will have to pay something
@@d.o456 thanks for the explanation!
As a Barça memeber I’ve found the video to be quite fair. Well done! In the first part I may also explained why it was more than a club during the dictarorship and beyond.
I love your vidios continue withe the gods work. Why you don’t make a vidio about sporting clube de Portugal
Laporta will be the lifelong president of Barcelona SA.
Owned by Goldaman Sach.
Make video on cricket topic
Thanks for this video
You're very welcome!