The coronavirus crisis, which threatens to establish a new economic order in world football after years of waste, is advancing against the clock in corrective measures in the face of falling revenues.

Last week it was Borussia Mönchengladbach who, according to their footballers, coaching staff and executive structure, agreed to a salary cut to save one million euros a month. Similar measures were also taken in the Bundesliga by Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 . There was still one of the giants of the football bourgeoisie to open the way definitively. It has been another German club, in this case the leader of the championship, Bayern Munich , which has decided to continue on a path that entities like Football Club Barcelona sigh in Spain.

Bayern, which closed last year having spent 336.2 million euros on sports wages, has entered into an agreement with the footballers of its first team to remove 20% of the annual salary , as reported by the Bild newspaper on Tuesday and collected the agency Dpa. The same percentage in the cut will be applied in the executive structure of the German entity, including the supervisory and administrative council. Similar measures are being negotiated by Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen .

The actions of the Bayern footballers do not end there. Three of its referents, Robert Lewandowski , Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka , have donated one million euros each to face the Covid-19 through the solidarity initiative We kick corona .

The urgencies of Barcelona

At FC Barcelona, ​​its president, Josep Maria Bartomeu , has already contacted the captains of the first team to find ways to avoid financial collapse. And that they are going through a salary cut that the Barça leaders think they are going to undertake "yes or yes". This Tuesday the Barcelona managers, after finding the protection of the employers both when exploring salary cuts and undertaking a hypothetical ERTE, returned to meet electronically to advance solutions.

Barcelona is the European club that pays the most in sports salaries: 525 million euros a year compared to the 990 million that the entity entered in the past year.

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