La Liga claims Barcelona inflated losses of €487 million – report

A new sunset, a new drama in Barcelona. This time surrounding the administration and their finances.

Last year, Joan Laporta, freshly appointed president of Barcelona, conducted a financial audit which revealed that the club had lost €487 million in the 2020/21 season as a result of COVID.

Further, he also claimed that only €90 million of this was directly a result of Coronavirus.

La Liga, at the time, did not believe Laporta’s claim, and decided to conduct an audit of their own. That is because all clubs in La Liga lost a grand total of around €824 million, and Javier Tebas refused to believe Barça were responsible for nearly 60% of that.

SPORT believe that they have information about La Liga’s audit and that there are two important discrepancies.

Firstly, they report that the second audit revealed that Barcelona’s total amount of losses — which was claimed to be €487 million, is actually less than half of that.

Secondly, La Liga found out that clubs of a similar status to Barcelona lost around €200 million directly due to covid, approximately €110 million less than Laporta’s deduction of €90 million.

If La Liga make their findings official soon, there could be a massive rift between the two parties, who are already on poor terms after how Lionel Messi’s departure was dealt with.