UEFA "provisionally" admits Barça in the Champions League
The suspense about whether or not Barça will be able to play the Champions League 2023-24 has ended. At least for now. UEFA has finally decided to admit the Barcelona club to the next edition of the highest European competition despite the Negreira scandal. Although, yes, with nuances. His decision, as the highest continental football body has reiterated, is provisional and reserves the right to review it in the future.
Something that, however, once the draw for the group stage has been held, which will take place on August 31 in Nyon, can be tremendously complicated.. Above all, when it comes to balancing calendars. Not in vain, this course will take part in the same five Spanish teams: the first four classified in the League of the season, that is, Barça, Real Madrid, Atlético, Real Sociedad, plus Sevilla as current champion of the Europa League. The group stage, itself, meanwhile, will start on September 19.
“The procedures related to the admission of FC Barcelona in the 2023/2024 UEFA club competitions are suspended, but they may be resumed, either ex officio or at the request of the Ethics and Disciplinary Inspectors in charge of the case,” it says. the highest body of European football in a statement made public this afternoon, where it stresses that, however, the last word has not yet been said.
“must be re-examined”
UEFA reiterates that Barça “has been provisionally admitted” and that “a future decision on this admission or exclusion” is reserved.. The Barcelona club, at all times, is obliged to keep the Ethics and Disciplinary Inspectors informed of the progress in the investigations to which it is being subjected “proactively” as well as to provide said inspectors with all the documentation that they provide. request.
UEFA has also invited the inspectors responsible for instructing the case to “continue and complete their own investigations” so that they can later send their report to the UEFA Appeals Committee in the event that they consider that this admission by Barça in the Champions League “must be re-examined”.
Resale of Barça Studios
The permission to take part in the Champions League, something that has never been questioned from within the entity chaired by Joan Laporta, has not been the only good news of the day for Barça. According to an article published by El Confidencial, the Barcelona entity is about to launch a kind of new economic lever, using the ones it activated last summer.
According to this medium, said lever would consist of the resale of part of the 49% of Barça Studios previously jointly acquired by Socios.com and Orpheus Media, the latter managed by Jaume Roures, and which had delayed their payments.. In this way, each party will give up 8% of its 24.5% so that a German investment fund can take over the remaining 16% in exchange for paying, right now, 60 million euros.