Report reveals the consequences of the cancelled Japanese tour for Barcelona | OneFootball

There never seems to be a quiet day when FC Barcelona happens to be involved with anything. Beyond just the transfer rumours and constant links all summer, even other operations can present their own unique challenges. Currently, Barcelona is having to deal with such hurdles.

Just recently, the club managed to finally officially announce the signing of Marcus Rashford. The English forward joins from Manchester United on a loan deal, and there was a lot of anticipation about his arrival.

The consequences of the cancelled match in Japan

Marcus Rashford’s Barcelona debut might have to wait. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

However, there were also reports suggesting that Rashford’s debut for Barcelona could also have happened this coming Sunday against Vissel Kobe in Japan. Unfortunately, that trip to Japan got cancelled entirely and there is no telling what ends up happening instead.

Yet, the opportunity for Rashford to get his debut is only one of the many consequences that the cancelled trip now presents for Barcelona to deal with. As highlighted by MARCA, there are several things that have made the complications much more complex for La Blaugrana.

For instance, the trip included a rather busy schedule for the Barcelona in terms of meetings with Japanese travel agency executives and airline representatives as part of an event organised by the Catalan Tourism Agency. Afterwards, there was a scheduled meeting with various Barça fan clubs in Japan, and a charity gala was also planned after that.

Even on a social level, the cancelled trip means that Barcelona would miss the chance to meet up with a rather large fanbase in the country. Moreover, there are over 1500 children enrolled in the six Barcelona academies located in Japan that would have been looking forward to this opportunity as well.

Furthermore, with Barça’s direct ties to Konami, the trip would have possibly made it more accessible for the club to have any kind of meeting with them if necessary. After all, it is an important source of revenue for Barça when it comes to such sponsorship agreements.

Barcelona to likely take an economic hit as well

Economically speaking, Barcelona was expected to earn around €15 million from this trip to Japan and South Korea as well. However, with the trip to South Korea still in the works, the impact of the Japanese game being cancelled is yet to be seen or at least be properly calculated.

Interestingly, the cancellation has also affected the media that travelled to the country as well ahead of time. Those journalists ended up going off to Japan and found out later that Barcelona had cancelled the match there itself.