Barcelona captain Lionel Messi attacked the best player in the world officially managing his club through a message on his account on the social networking site Instagram, and it may be the first time that the Argentine star appears and attacks his club’s management officially to confirm the existence of the differences that the media talked about The current season and the presence of a crisis between the club president and the team stars.
Barcelona announced in an official statement the reduction of the salaries of its players by 70% in addition to the deduction percentage guaranteed by the players to contribute to ensuring that the salaries of the other employees of the club are paid in full, following the message of the Argentine player Messi and his fellow players. (See details)
The Argentine player said on his official account on the social networking site Instagram: “It is time to announce that, in addition to reducing 70 percent of our salary during the state of emergency, we will make contributions so that club employees can collect 100 percent of their salaries as long as this continues. We must make it clear that our desire has always been to apply salary cuts, because we fully understand that this is an exceptional situation and we are the first to always help the club when we are asked to do so. "
"We did this often on our initiative when we saw that it was necessary or important. There are those inside the club who tried to put us under a microscope and pressure us to do something we always knew we would do."
After posting it on his Instagram account, Messi's various colleagues were quick to spread the message on their own accounts, including Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba, Uruguayan Luis Suarez, French Antoine Griezmann, Dutchman Frankie de Jong, Chilean Arturo Vidal and German goalkeeper Mark Andre Ter Stegen.