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The Athletic FC Podcast

Barcelona 'bet the house' on their future - will it work?

38 min • 21 november 2023

It doesn’t seem that long ago, that Pep’s Barcelona were the epitome of a well-run football club.

Moving on from Messi & co was always going to be difficult, but a series of failings on and off the pitch, led to a fall from grace. Only last month however, President Joan Laporta proclaimed the crisis he ‘inherited’ was over.

But, as the reigning La Liga Champions’, net debt climbs to almost £1.2bn - is everything quite as it seems at Barca? 

In the second part of our series ‘Crisis Clubs’, examining the financial states of five European football clubs, Ayo Akinwolere, Matt Slater & Dermot Corrigan dig into the numbers and plot a potential way out for Barcelona.


Produced by Adonis Pratsides and Mike Stavrou

Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead


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