"A highly credible plan intended for Barça to continue to be the best club" (F. Reverter, CEO)

"This board has a plan, a plan that investors have bought into and that has also got us out of the debt that we were talking about (see below). So this plan is highly credible and is intended for FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander) to continue to be the best club. FC Barcelona is a resilient club by nature. FC Barcelona has gone through many crises. FC Barcelona has been on the verge of disappearing, great players have left, great coaches have left. But the club has always come out of it, and in fact it has always come back stronger," said Ferran Reverter, CEO of the Catalan club, on 06/10/2021.

The manager discussed Barça's economic and financial situation, which shows revenues of €631m for the 2020-21 financial year (from 01/07/2020 to 30/06/2021), down 26.2% versus 2019-20 (€855m), and above all a net loss of €481m and net debt of €680m as of 30/06/2021.

The deployment of the new management's five-year strategic plan (2021-2026), resulting from the election of president Joan Laporta (on 07/03/2021), involves, among other things, the modernisation of the club's facilities and the…