{"id":302,"date":"2026-05-29T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=302"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:32:51","slug":"despite-their-well-documented-financial-woes-barcelona-are-reportedly-preparing-a-pair-of-bold-signings-worth-e180m-enough-to-land-both-anthony-gordon-and-julian-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Despite their well-documented financial woes, Barcelona are reportedly preparing a pair of bold signings worth \u20ac180m-enough to land both Anthony Gordon and Julian Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Robert Lewandowski&#8217;s impending departure, with his contract set to expire, will immediately ease Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s wage bill, given that the Polish striker was the club&#8217;s top earner. The club is also expected to drop its interest in Marcus Rashford, currently on loan from Manchester United, who occupies a similar bracket at the top of the salary structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The combined salary savings should provide Bar\u00e7a with some much-needed financial flexibility for investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, the Catalans are still heavily in debt; when the Camp Nou renovation costs are included, the total reaches a staggering \u20ac2.6 billion, so the club must raise funds to complete incoming transfers such as Gordon or possibly Alvarez\u2014and secure their LaLiga registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><i><em>Sport<\/em><\/i><span>strikers Ferran Torres and Marc Casado are expected to raise funds and free up further salary-cap room. Both could be included in a potential swap deal for Alvarez, given that Atl\u00e9tico Madrid have long been linked with Casado; as ever, though, the details must be finalised before any transfer can go ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski&#8217;s impending departure, with his contract set to expire, will immediately ease Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s wage bill, given that the Polish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}