Barcelona has fallen enormously

"Every major club in Europe is affected by a similar magnitude. And it won't take a year for us to get straight, but three or four years," Bartomeu told Sport. Speaking for the 2020-21 season, the club leader added that they expected € 1.1 billion in revenue, but that it could reach 30 per cent.

“If the epidemic in the world doesn’t improve, there will still be no spectators in the stadiums, no museums, no shops, so the money we expected, what we planned, will still not reach us,” he said. He added that all this requires the strictest possible management on the part of the club management in the near future.

“We need to look carefully at which investments are essential and which can be postponed,” the president said. Such investments include large certification transfer fees, Bartomeu said in connection with them.

"Neymar? In the current situation, it's impossible to get him, and Paris Saint-Germain doesn't want to sell him either," Bartomeu said of the Brazilian player's contract. Neymar left the Catalans in the summer of 2017 and set a world record for € 222 million for PSG. As early as last summer, a possible return to Barcelona was written about the attacker, which then turned into nothing. The topic was also briefly covered in the sports press this summer.

For a long time, the contract with Lautaro Martinez from Argentina seemed to be FC Barcelona’s biggest summer catch - Italian sports newspapers reported the deal as a fact - but there is less and less chance of winning an Internazionale player.

"Barcelona has negotiated Interrel Lautaro, but negotiations have been interrupted. The situation would not require a large investment," he said.

Bartomeu also revealed that disciplinary proceedings were instituted against Arthur, who had contracted with Juventus, after the Brazilian midfielder did not return from his vacation.

"We agreed with him that until his end in the Champions League, he would stay with us and play. It could help us," Bartomeu said. Catalans will host Napoli on Saturday in the BL-eighth final rematch, with the first game in February ending 1-1.

Although Arthur insisted on the Catalan club, as he stated on several occasions in his statements, Barcelona ranked him among the players who could be involved in a swap in the summer. The Brazilian midfielder thus came to Juventus, from which the Catalans acquired the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic. Both players will officially join their new team from the first day of September.

Barcelona have been undulating in the league since the start, finishing in second place behind the big-haired Real Madrid.

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