Barcelona president Joan Laporta says he won’t pursue a deal for Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappe this summer if it puts the club’s finances at risk.
The Catalan giants are among the clubs to be linked with the strikers, along with the likes of Manchester City and Real Madrid.
But Barcelona remain in a precarious financial situation, facing reported debts of €1.35 billion, which led to club icon Lionel Messi departing for PSG last summer.
“I will not talk about specific players, but I can tell you that we will not carry out any operation that puts the institution at risk,” Laporta told Mundo Deportivo (via Goal).
“It has been a maxim that we have followed since I became president again…we are going to continue with this philosophy, not to put the institution at risk with operations that, not even if we were already healthy, we would.