Barcelona are weighing up selling a major shareholding in the club.
That's according to Okdiario's chief football pundit Eduardo Inda, who commented on Barca's relationship with Goldman Sachs on El Chiringuito.
Towards the end of last season, Barca president Joan Laporta secured agreement over a €500m loan with US investment bank Goldman Sachs. The financial firm agreed to give Barcelona the loan (€100m of which would be made available to the club immediately) to ease the club's financial situation.
At the time, Barca's board insisted it would give the club two years of breathing space and time to correct their debt problems. However, Inda says the need to compete with the Premier League and the likes of PSG is forcing Laporta and his fellow directors to consider other measures to raise funds.
Quoted by Okdiario, Inda stated: "Barcelona has a very important economic objective. Capital has to come in to compete with state clubs. Goldman Sachs lent them 500 million euros and, as we saw that it was not going to be easy for them to repay it, they gave them three options: accept the CVC fund of the LaLiga, sell players or become a Sports Public Limited Company.
"The latter is being considered. This does not mean that Barcelona sells the total share capital, it could sell 49% so that the majority would continue to belong to its members."
- updated September 15
