{"id":495901,"date":"2025-10-10T07:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495901"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:17:30","slug":"barcelona-still-owe-e159-million-in-transfer-fees-despite-financial-progress","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/barcelona-still-owe-e159-million-in-transfer-fees-despite-financial-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona still owe \u20ac159 million in transfer fees despite financial progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona may have taken a more cautious approach in the transfer market in recent years, but their financial decisions from past signings remain significant. According to the club\u2019s latest financial report, cited by SPORT, the Catalan giants still owe \u20ac159.1 million to other clubs for previous transfers as of June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Of that figure, \u20ac140.6 million is due within the next year, while \u20ac18.5 million represents long-term obligations. The largest amount is owed to Leeds United (\u20ac41.9 million) for the signing of Raphinha, followed by Sevilla (\u20ac24.5 million) for Jules Kounde, and Bayern Munich (\u20ac20 million) for Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83e\udde8 FC Barcelona still owes Bayern \u20ac20 million for Lewandowski !<\/p>\n<p>In total, Bar\u00e7a has \u20ac160 million in transfer debt. \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83e\udd49<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPORTBILD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SPORTBILD<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9oB5lnei5j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9oB5lnei5j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bayern Focus (@FCBayernFocus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBayernFocus\/status\/1976272186014110143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other pending payments include \u20ac13.3 million to Manchester City for Ferran Torres, \u20ac8 million to Real Betis for Emerson Royal, and over \u20ac6 million linked to Lewandowski\u2019s transfer as performance-related bonuses to various German clubs. Smaller amounts are still owed to Valencia, Girona, Sporting CP, and Stade Rennais.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these liabilities, the report also shows that Barcelona are owed \u20ac64.1 million from other clubs \u2014 a sharp increase from last year\u2019s \u20ac35.9 million. Approximately \u20ac40.3 million of this comes from transfer operations, while \u20ac12 million is due from La Liga itself. Among the clubs still to pay Barcelona are FC Porto (\u20ac6.7 million) for Nico Gonzalez, Al Ahli (\u20ac4.1 million) for Franck Kessie, and Shakhtar Donetsk (\u20ac3.1 million) for Marlon.<\/p>\n<p>Additional receivables include smaller sums related to deals for Antoine Griezmann, Alex Collado, Julian Araujo, and Sergi Gomez, showing that while transfer debts weigh heavily, Barcelona also hold notable credit across the football market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona may have taken a more cautious approach in the transfer market in recent years, but their financial decisions from past signings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495902,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224,17969],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17560,26872,25863],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"At the same time the Catalan club is expecting 64 million euros from other clubs ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495903,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495901\/revisions\/495903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495901"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495901"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}