The League presented this Thursday the Sports Squad Cost Limits (LCPD)which is the salary limit of each club. Once the transfer market closed, the data reveals that the real Madrid It continues to be the team with the most salary margin, since it presents figures of 754.9 million euros. For his part, the Barcelona recovers second position, presenting an improvement in terms of the expenditure that can be allocated to salaries, but that has been insufficient, since they have had to do a trick to be able to register Dani Olmo.
The Barça team meets 426.4 million of limit. With that figure, they regain the second position, which Atlético had. Last winter, in the last update of the LCPD, They had a salary capacity of 204.1 million euros. Even so, they remain far from Real Madrid, which leads them by almost 330 million.
As has happened in recent years, the white team remains at the top of the salary limit. He real Madrid is very far apart, with a total of 754.9 million, while the Athletic It is third, with 310 million. Furthermore, the two teams from the capital have taken advantage of this superiority over the rest of the clubs to acquire big stars in the market.
While Real Madrid has signed Kylian Mbappé, Simeone’s men have been reinforced with several high-level additions. Julián Álvarez, Alex Sorloth, Conor Gallagher and Robin le Normand They highlight the good economic moment that the institution is going through, which has allowed them to gain stars to compete for everything with the rest of the continent’s greats.
Also noteworthy is the increase in the salary capacity of the Girona, after finishing last season in third place in the League and, therefore, securing a good amount of extra income from their participation in the Champions League. The people of Girona go from 52.1 million that they had in February, to the 94.4 current.
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Also highlights the Betis, which has managed to generate salary spending capacity, but at the cost of getting rid of several of its players, such as Fekir or Rodri. Real Sociedad, Athletic and Alavés They have also improved their limits compared to last year, as well as Leganes and Valladolid –recently promoted– that last year had figures of 9.6 and 16.6 million, compared to 37.1 and 41.8 this season, respectively.
The salary limit portrays the League
In these data from Sports Squad Cost Limit There is a trend that is more than worrying. The numbers are a true reflection that the EA Sports League clubs are increasingly suffocated by Javier Tebas’ financial regulations. The most alarming data is presented by Seville, with very worrying numbers, since their salary margin is only 2.5 million euros. The Seville club is greatly surpassed in salaries.
If we compare the current data with that of last summer, half of the clubs have seen their salary capacity reduced. In addition to the Sevilla entity, it is Spanish –despite the promotion–, Mallorca, Valencia, Osasuna, Villarreal, Celta, Rayo, Las Palmas and Getafe.
