The president of the Barcelona Football Club, Josep Maria Bartomeu, knows himself before the most delicate situation of his mandate. Not so much because of his stay in the presidential chair, which he plans to maintain until the end of his mandate in 2021, but because of the financial collapse caused by the coronavirus crisis.

The Barça management leadership no longer thinks of those 1,047 million euros budgeted for the end of this year , but simply not to be swallowed up by expenses in the face of the drastic fall in income. For this it needs the complicity of the footballers of the first team who, despite understanding the situation, still do not see the important cut proposed.

The captains of Barcelona (Messi, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Piqué and Sergi Roberto) have already been surveyed this past weekend. The idea of ​​the club goes through a high cut of a percentage of his salary, including also in the percentage premiums and variable concepts . Said measure would also be applied to the rest of the entity's professional athletes, but also to the executive area.

The players, aware of the important impact on their payrolls, have asked their agents for advice. In any case, and according to sources from the board of directors consulted by EL MUNDO, the cut will be effective whether or not the complicity of the wardrobe is achieved . In fact, Barcelona is the European club that pays the most in sports wages worldwide: 525 million euros a year compared to the 990 million entered in the last year.

The Barcelona team are aware that, in professional sports, even more so in the soccer elite, it is difficult to apply a contract suspension ERTE. Not only because this would allow those affected to negotiate the transfer with other entities, but because the unemployment benefits offered by the State do not offer any doubts in this regard: 70% of the regulatory base during the first six months, and 50% to from the seventh. But with an important conditioning factor. The maximum to be collected would be 1,411.83 euros in the case of having two children (1,254 euros, with one child; 1,098 euros, without children). Therefore, a solution that is being evaluated is the application of an ERTE to reduce working hours .

Barcelona, ​​meanwhile, prepares the conditions to undertake an ERTE for different departments of the entity, especially those referring to merchandising stores or the club Museum.

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