Their motto is ‘Mes sue un club’, which translated means ‘More than a club”. They also house an official Barca anthem, which comes in the shape of the ‘Cant del Barca’. Both Jaume Picas and Josep Espinas wrote this particular song. Fans and team members at the matches often chant this exact tune.

Barcelona football club are in fact the second richest football club in the world in terms of profit. They in fact have an immense yearly turnover of €398 million.

Their upmost rival comes in the shape of Real Madrid. Matches between both Real Madrid and Barcelona are referred to as ‘El Clasico’.

Barcelona is in fact reined as the current champion team in both Europe and Spain, winning the most home and international trophies in Spanish football to date.

Trophies won include Copa de la Liga, Copa Eva Duarte, Supercopa de Espana,Copa del Rey and La Liga and they appear as the record holders for all above competitions.

Their other claim to fame includes winning a total of four UEFA Super Cup competitions, four UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup competitions, four UEFA Champions league contests, an impressive three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups and also two FIFA Club World Cup Trophies.

Barcelona is also the only European club to have taken part in seasonal continental football. These games began in 1955.

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The reason for MU’s increasing debts is the raise of interest rates and other costs. The team’s management has to cope with interest rate increase from 14.25% to 16.25%; MU spent more than £68 million repaying interest alone last year, and the burden will be much heavier after the 2% increase.

Sir Alex Ferguson had stated that Manchester United is not affected in any way — especially when it comes to purchasing and maintaining their best players — by the increasing amount of debt. Still, both the public and the media are not entirely convinced with Sir Alex’s statement, especially after seeing the £80 million Manchester United received after selling Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid being allocated for other posts; only less than a quarter of the money were used to shop for new players.

Sir Alex did purchased Antonio Valencia and Gabriel Obertan earlier this season, while Michael Owen was acquired for free from Newcastle United. The sale of CR7 to Real Madrid also brought Manchester United’s 2009 financial report to a cool £6.4 million closing profit; the 2008 was a lot worse, showing £42.7 million in financial losses alone. Will Manchester United solve their problems?