The players of Barcelona's first team once again rebel against the sole command of President
Bartomeu
.
Once they have been legally advised, they have already prepared a burofax in which they will claim that this "temporary salary adjustment" with which the Barça directive intends to cut 30% of the payroll is not part of a joint negotiation with the rest of the employees.
The Bartomeu regime only waited a day for the transfer market to close to get down to work.
First he got in touch with the footballers of the first team and the subsidiary, with a good part of the players receiving the news puzzled as they were already with their teams.
Although it was worse for the administrative staff of the entity to repair by the press that they would also be part of the salary reductions before receiving their own letter.
A letter that concluded with "an affectionate greeting" from the management, and in which it was communicated "the need to initiate the processing of a collective procedure for modifying working conditions (...) for the resulting productive causes of the pandemic ".
Barcelona, with a debt of 820 million euros, stopped entering 203 million in the time of Covid.
Special conditions
This next week a joint negotiation table should be set up in which the players do not intend to participate, understanding that their working conditions have nothing to do with those of the rest of the club's workers.
In fact, the Barcelona Works Council reminds this newspaper that only 4% of the entity's spending budget corresponds to corporate personnel.
Nothing to do with the 70% applicable to the first team.
Barça paid 636 million euros in sports salaries last year.
They are the highest paid squad in world football.
"Everyone has to make an adjustment of expenses with respect to their income. We have to balance the accounts with the tools that the club provides us," Jordi Moix, Barcelona's economic vice president, tried to defend himself a week ago.
The club's plan with its footballers is to emulate the so-called
Mirotic formula
.
The franchise player of the Barça first basketball team extended his contract in order to spread out his payroll.
A route that Davies, Oriola and Hanga also followed.
"It is a way of timing payments", they maintain in the Barcelona offices.
At the club they insist on exploring that path in the football booth and thus minimize a conflict that, however, is completely open.
Private pacts
Protecting itself for Barcelona in articles 41 and 47 of the Workers' Statute, it announced to those affected a 15-day consultation period.
It also envisaged that "the group of professional athletes" would be represented with a single voice at a negotiating table made up of a maximum of 13 people.
Although footballers prefer, once again, to reach private agreements as it happened during the period of confinement.
Then, after a turbulent negotiation that ended with Leo Messi attacking the board when he understood that the board had pressured them before the media, Barcelona could barely start 42 million euros.
Meanwhile, Bartomeu resists his "seven plagues of Egypt", a concept popularized by his vice president Moix.
With the footballers again against him.
But with a faithful board.
In recent days,
group
messages have been repeated
between managers sending encouragement to each other, no matter how much one of them has come to consider a resignation never openly expressed before his colleagues.
The board is willing to face the vote of no confidence from the partners together with its president.
To go to the end.
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