{"id":49440,"date":"2026-07-02T21:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/49440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:37:24","slug":"la-liga-president-hints-at-barcelonas-return-to-11-rule-weve-informed-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/49440\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga president hints at Barcelona’s return to 1:1 rule: ‘We\u2019ve informed them’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona\u2019s ability to operate freely in the transfer market has once again become a talking point after Javier Tebas suggested the club may finally be approaching compliance with La Liga\u2019s coveted 1:1 rule.<\/p>\n

Speaking a day after attending Joan Laporta\u2019s inauguration ceremony<\/a>, the La Liga president offered an encouraging assessment of Bar\u00e7a\u2019s current financial position, while stopping short of confirming that the Catalan side have definitively regained full spending capacity.<\/p>\n

Tebas offers optimism\u00a0<\/p>\n

Questions surrounding Barcelona\u2019s Financial Fair Play status<\/a> have dominated several transfer windows, but Tebas hinted that the situation has improved significantly.<\/p>\n

Asked whether Barcelona currently satisfy the requirements needed to operate under the 1:1 rule, the La Liga chief chose his words carefully.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think so. Let Bar\u00e7a say so. We\u2019ve informed them; they will know. I don\u2019t know \u2013 it\u2019s handled by the Financial Control department,\u201d he said, as per SPORT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although not a definitive confirmation, Tebas\u2019 remarks suggest Barcelona are moving closer to the financial flexibility they have been striving to recover over recent years.<\/p>\n

Notably, Barcelona have spent months restructuring their accounts in an effort to restore stability and create room for new signings.<\/p>\n

\"\"Javier Tebas has explained Barcelona\u2019s finances. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images For Sportel)<\/p>\n

Among them are the \u20ac14 million generated through the partial sale of VIP seats at the renovated Spotify Camp Nou<\/a> and the permanent transfer of Ansu Fati to Monaco.<\/p>\n

Within the club, these transactions are considered crucial in helping Barcelona close the financial year with healthier numbers.<\/p>\n

How Barcelona could finance a major transfer<\/p>\n

The debate surrounding Barcelona\u2019s finances has intensified because of reports linking the club with high-profile additions, particularly Julian Alvarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tebas used the opportunity to explain how Financial Fair Play calculations function when clubs make expensive signings.<\/p>\n

Using a hypothetical example, the La Liga president pointed out that transfer fees are amortised over the length of a player\u2019s contract rather than being recorded entirely in a single financial year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you sign a player, if you pay 100 million, it is spread over the contract period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JavierTebas also shed light on how Barcelona can sign Julian Alvarez. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images For Sportel)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Financial Fair Play, if you sign a player for 100 and the contract is for 5 years, 20 is counted each year. And the other factor that counts is the player\u2019s transfer fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine that for 150 million \u2013 which would be a top player \u2013 35 million is counted each year,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The player\u2019s salary, however, also forms part of the equation and must be incorporated into the annual Financial Fair Play calculations.<\/p>\n

Strong relationship with Laporta<\/p>\n

Tebas also addressed speculation generated by his attendance at Laporta\u2019s inauguration, especially after the Barcelona president publicly referred to him as a friend.<\/p>\n

The La Liga chief insisted that maintaining a cordial institutional relationship with Barcelona does not affect the decisions taken by the governing body.<\/p>\n

Clarifying his position, Tebas stated, \u201cThere is no need to hide the fact that we have good relations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona\u2019s ability to operate freely in the transfer market has once again become a talking point after Javier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,222,223,8094],"class_list":["post-49440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-news","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-javier-tebas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}