FC Barcelona would have the second highest payroll in Europe (300 million euros) according to UEFA. One of the reasons would be that in addition to paying the salaries of all its current players, the Blaugrana continue to pay salaries to Lionel Messi, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets, all three now at Inter Miami.
According to the Spanish newspaper Sport, these would be salaries negotiated during the Covid-19 era with its three stars in order to reduce the club's expenses at this time, but everything is paid for one day. At that time, the Catalan club was strongly impacted by this pandemic on an economic level. The only team with a larger payroll in Europe is PSG (500 million euros).