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Business Daily: Life after Messi: FC Barcelona's financial mess

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Life after Messi: FC Barcelona's financial mess

01/09/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Life after Messi: FC Barcelona's financial mess

How did one of the world's biggest sporting brands end up in such a financial mess?

We take a look at how one of the world's biggest sporting brands ended up in a financial hole

How did one of the world's biggest sporting brands end up in such a financial mess? FC Barcelona's collapse, from European Champions League winning juggernaut, to unable to register its players under salary cap rules took less than a decade. So how did it take so little time for one of football's giants to fall so hard? We explore that with club members and supporters, as well as the Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper, the author of a new book about Barcelona; Barca, the Inside story of the world's greatest football club.


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