Barcelona to Discontinue Team Breakfast Tradition Amid Financial Struggles

• Barcelona’s financial situation continues to dwindle
• The club has activated a number of economic levers to stay afloat
• The La Liga champions have resolved to take a few drastic measures to help its ailing finances

Barcelona are actively seeking to utilise all resources at their disposal to address the rapidly deteriorating financial situation.

The La Liga giants, who only recently resold a portion of its Barca studios, are once more resorting to a drastic measure in order to maintain their financial stability.

As per information from Spanish outlet Relevo, the Catalan club are poised to discontinue the provision of breakfast to its youth team players.

The report buttresses that the youth players managed by former defender Rafael Marquez have not been making full use of the breakfast meals. This situation has led club president Joan Laporta to conclude that these expenses lack justification.

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This decision comes only days after Diario AS reported the Spanish giant had discontinued its 25-year-long taxi service available to players of the club’s academy.

Barcelona's ailing finance

In the summer of 2021, Barcelona had to let go of then-captain and talismanic forward Lionel Messi after failing to meet La Liga’s financial requirement to register the Argentine.

Despite numerous sales of players and a host of others agreeing to a pay reduction, according to reports from The Athletic, the club’s financial situation appeared to have made little to rebound.

In 2022, the Catalan club were forced to activate a series of economic levers to enable the signing and registration of a few players.

It appears the economic buffer these activated levers provided has run out, as the club currently still has a list of first-team players unregistered heading into the third match round of the 2023/24 La Liga season.

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Barcelona’s financial burden remains unchanged

Sports Brief in a previous report, stated that Barcelona’s financial situation has remained unchanged since the departure of Lionel Messi.

The club’s debt remains the exact negative of €1.35 billion despite numerous efforts by club president Joan Laporta to help mitigate the club’s deteriorating finance.

Joan Laporta returned to office as president of the Blaugrana in March 2021 and was charged with restoring financial order at Camp Nou.

Vice President of Economics, Eduard Romeu, revealed to Cadena Cope that the club’s debts remain at €1.35 billion, with that figure not taking into account the €1.5 billion cost of the Espai Barca project that will be delivering major redevelopment of the club’s famous stadium.