from the guardian :
Barcelona have taken out a £130m loan. Just over a week ago the new Barça president, Sandro Rosell, said the club had been forced into the move for cash-flow reasons, as they were struggling to pay the salaries of players, coaching staff and other employees.
Santander, which took over Abbey National in 2004 and Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley in 2008, is one of the largest banks in the world and the biggest in the Eurozone. La Caixa is Spain’s leading savings bank.
