Barcelona trigger fourth financial lever in bid to register new signings

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In order to register all of their new signings for Saturday's game against Rayo Vallecano, Barcelona have sold a further 24.5% of their studio.

Sources say that they are hopeful that the situation can now be solved, despite the fact that Barcelona still have seven players who are not registered.

The documents will be reviewed to see if anyone can now be registered.

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It is possible that Barcelona still need to slightly reduce their wage bill to make sure everyone is available for the Rayo game, but that could be done through an adjustment to the salary of the player.

This summer, Barcelona have pulled four financial levers. They sold 25% of their domestic television rights to Sixth Street for 25 years in two separate deals worth over 500 million dollars.

The deals with Socios.com and Sixth Street were supposed to allow Barcelona to inscribe all of the players signed in the transfer window.

They were in talks with GDA Luma to sell another 25% of Barcelona Studios, but they had to look somewhere else this week.

Jaume Roures is the owner of Orpheus Media, which helped Joan Laporta become the club's president. The club spent over 150m on Lewandowski, Raphinha, Jules Kounde and other players.

The Spanish league has yet to approve Sergi Roberto and Ousmane Dembele's new contracts.

The first game of the season is one day away.

It was the same situation last year when Memphis Depay and EricGarcia were registered on the eve of the campaign, after Pique accepted a pay cut.

According to a league source, the three levers pulled so far this summer would have allowed Barcelona to register some of the seven players.

The source said that the club wanted to be able to register all the players at once. In addition to the deal with Roures, talks are ongoing with Pique and Busquets over further wage cuts to make salary space

There is a spending limit in LaLiga. At the end of last season, the only negative cap in Spain, it was 144m, but the sale of assets this summer should make it much higher.

Barcelona Studios is the club's in-house production company but is also branching out and the club said the deal with Socios.com earlier this month will also accelerate the club's audiovisual,Blockchain, NFT and Web.3 strategy.