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Barça’s financial situation does not allow for large expenditures in recent times. Especially in terms of transfers. The Barça club has not been able to reinforce the first football team due to this situation and in the summer it had to stop additions such as Leo Messi, before leaving for Inter Miami, to fail to comply with the financial fair play imposed by LaLiga. But if this is so, Why can you incorporate Ricky Rubio to your basketball team?
Here would come a very logical answer and that is that The football team is one thing and the basketball team is another despite belonging to the same club. Correct, but not entirely. To comply with the viability plan imposed by LaLiga, Barça included the rest of the club’s sections as ‘non-registrable template’. A category to which LaLiga, with the clubs that have included it in their viability plan, will give the same treatment as the registerable squad (the football team) and that can be counted to comply with the savings plans.
That is The movements made in the different sections of the club count in the Fair Play of the entity directed by Joan Laporta and LaLiga ensures that all these movements do not imbalance the accounts to comply with the club’s viability plan. So, If there is no money to sign in football, why can you do it in basketball?
Because even though everything counts within the same salary space, The basketball team has economic margin to be able to incorporate a player since it has a free spot in its first team. The Barça team, which has the rights to Ricky in Europe, I had not completed the 16 professional sheets to which he is entitled (Jakucionis, Sarr and Nessah count as under 20 years old) and had reserved salary space to undertake a signing if necessary. Of course, if it exceeds that margin, the amount exceeded is subtracted from the limit for the following season.
The other question that arises now is how much Rubio will earn. And here the comparison with football appears again. An NBA star like Ricky – or as happened with Pau Gasol – can earn the minimum to lighten the salary burden. Contrary to what could happen with Leo Messi last summerwho could not earn a “normal” salary of 3-5 million euros net and which did not weigh so much on Barça’s salary bill. In football everything depends on the value given by a Valuation Committee, made up of independent LaLiga experts who decide the minimum salary that will be accounted to the club. in his salary cap, even if the player decided to play for free. And his ruling is unappealable.
If you are curious beyond these lines, you can find all the powers of this Valuation Committee in article 105 bis of the LaLiga budgeting rules. “Aspects such as the player’s acquisition cost, the value of his termination clause or the available remuneration elements will be taken into account, without prejudice to other aspects.”
In the case of Ricky Rubio “he is not going to earn what he does in the NBA”as club sources comment to Relevo to emphasize that Rubio is not going to represent an unaffordable cost for the entity’s coffers. In fact, although his salary is unknown, he will not be among the highest in the squad, which has facilitated his arrival at the club.
His case is very similar to that of Pau Gasol. The center also chose Barcelona to return after two years of absence and after a few weeks of training with the team he returned to the fields dressed in Barça. The Sant Boi player received the minimum -28,000 euros as stipulated in the Endesa League- to end up playing in the Euroleague final and conquering the ACB before their last dance at the Tokyo Games.
Now it is Ricky who has chosen that path. The point guard at the moment does not have a date since it will be the player himself who decides the times. “Ricky Rubio’s return to official competition will come when the player himself considers it appropriate,” read the statement announcing his incorporation. There is no rush and the Cup seems like a hasty scenario for it, so everything points to March to return to the ‘9’ with the Barça jersey.
Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of basketball his profession. Graduated in Humanities from the Carlos III University and with a Master in Journalism, he began working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, including the closing section. In 2011 he began as an editor on the official NBA website in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the United States. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, two World Cups and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude ACB playoffs, NBA and Euroleague Final Four games. He has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis. …
Sergio Fernández is head of Relief Research. Graduated in Journalism from the CEU San Pablo University, he grew up in Onda Madrid and worked for several magazines before moving to Sports in the Community of Madrid, where he pursued the goal of the Olympic candidacy. Later, with the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid, he signed for MARCA to cover his daily life and trained for 12 years in institutional information, research and interviews. He has given numerous exclusives during his career, such as the first interview with Antoine Griezmann after signing for Barcelona, and works with information on everything that moves in the offices of Spanish and international football, with special focus on the financial control of LaLiga, the RFEF, UEFA, FIFA and the transfer market. Since 2023 he has presented with Diego Campoy on YouTube a program about football for Mister Underdog. …
