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Clive, Barca will not go bankrupt for several reasons. One of them is that they have close to 170,000 paid up socios. If the banks were to get tough on Barcelona they'd risk alienating their customer base.
The Qatar foundation deal will help the club to service their debts, it will however not eradicate their debt completely. The youth set up is also self sufficient and players not good enough for the first team get sold on for decent money (Bojan Krikic is a good example).
There is tons of articles written about the debts of Real Madrid and Barcelona but the main difference is that fascists get money from the local government and Barcelona get it from the banks.