Barca chief blasts Real’s transfer policy

BARCELONA finance director Xavier Sala i Martin is bewildered as to how Real Madrid are funding their summer spending spree. With a reported transfer budget of €300m at their disposal, Madrid president Florentino Perez has this week set about creating a second ‘galacticos’ era.

Sala i Martin, whose team finished nine points clear of Madrid at the Primera Division summit last month, is puzzled by how the massive Kaka and Ronaldo purchases are being financed.

He said: “I don’t know where the €300m that Florentino Perez expects to invest on signings are coming from. He says he will recover that money by selling shirts but, in order to do that, he will have to sell 30 million shirts. That is impossible.”