You've fallen for it, as have the Madrid press by the way. This is simply Rosell trying to shit on Laporta. The debt they talk about here, as has been explained a TON of times on these forums is all inclusive of contractual debt (for example, we have 35 ME of debt for the Villa contract that see him at 7ME salary for the next 5 seasons, we have a debt of about 48ME left on the Ibra contract at his 4 years of 12 ME, another 50 ME or so for Messi's contract salary, etc.... ). As you can see, when you pay your players well, that 'Debt' ends up being a big number. The key is, what is our income and does it cover our contractual obligations.
Well, the previous board ran the numbers, and showed them to the public: we had 11 ME more income last season than we had money out. This board has 'revised' those numbers to show a loss of 77 ME over that season. Now, the question is, why this sudden change of 89 ME for last season? It's explained in detail by the club, and most of it is smoke and mirrors, passing income on to next season that the previous administration had on last year, and passing expenses back to last year that the previous administration had for next season's budget. Some examples:
* The sale of land for 14.9 ME was used on last year's books as income by Laporta's admin, yet this admin is saying the money is not yet received despite the contract being completed, and therefore can't be counted yet.
* 12 ME signing bonus payment for a contract with MediaPro that was counted as income by Laporta's admin, yet this admin says the contract calls for 3 payments of 4ME in each of the next 3 years, so despite the contract and income being on the books for last year, they won't count it until payments have been made.
* They disagree on how to count some 8.2 ME dealing with the Henry transfer and his contract situation on leaving Barca for the Red Bulls.
* The biggest sum of money they disagree on is 37.8 ME due but not paid from Sogecable for TV rights from 04/05 season.
The point is, this is yet another attempt from Rosell's team to try and paint the Laporta administration as an economic problem, when in fact it has been proven to be otherwise. The simple fact that Rosell's team still says we have 50 ME in our transfer budget should really be the part that sheds the most light on what they are doing. They are saying "Laporta and his team have run us into financial problems, don't worry, we'll fix it for you.... but we're going to keep the same transfer budget as Laporta's team had". It's ridiculous.
