Barcelona ready to give Hansi Flick and Deco ‘what they ask for’ in summer transfer window

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Hansi Flick coaches during the match between FC Barcelona and Villarreal CF, corresponding to week 26 of LaLiga EA Sports, at the Spotify Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on February 28, 2026. (Photo by Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images) -- (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | NurPhoto via Getty Images

Barcelona’s finances have made news again this week after confirmation from La Liga that the club’s salary cap has increased by €81 million to €432.8m following the end of the winter transfer window.

The Catalan giants aren’t quite yet at the 1:1 rule but Ferran Olive, Barca’s treasurer until the recent resignation of Joan Laporta ahead of the elections, says they will be by the time the next window rolls around.

Olive is also confident the club will be able to bring in whichever players Hansi Flick and Deco demand to strengthen the first team.

“We will be in the 1-1 rule and ready to give them what they ask for,” he told Sport.

“We are almost at the 1-1 rule. We could have done an operation in January to sell more VIP seats and we would have arrived, but as Deco and Flick did not ask us for anything and Cancelo’s registration was made with Christensen’s injury, we did not want to do it.

“We are at 10-12 million. This summer we will be in the 1-1 rule and we will finally be able to operate normally. It has cost us a lot. As Mateu Alemany told me, we had an inverted pyramid.

“Footballers who were paid a lot and did not play and others who played and were paid little. It has been difficult to straighten out the situation. It’s like the Mirotic issue, which took half of the section’s budget.”

Barcelona’s priorities appear to be a new center-forward and a new center-back for the summer, with a host of players having already been linked with a move to Catalunya.

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