Barça footballers are suspicious of the Manager: "We have already lowered our salary from 417.26 to 353.72 million"

"They intend to close an agreement next Thursday and they have not yet transferred a formal proposal to us. We will see what happens at the meeting on Wednesday. But this is very difficult. We have to pay for the excesses of others in recent years." Barcelona's first team attend with perplexity that negotiation of "salary adjustment" that was left pending by

board of directors

before his resignation, and which is now trying to settle the Management Committee that presides

from

.

Something that the players do not quite understand, even more so seeing that this Manager has asked them to accept its legitimacy in writing.

They would prefer that pacts of that scope be signed with the new president of the club, not with an accidental government. From the Barça dressing room, in addition, it is remembered that there is still time.

That the payment of their payroll is not made until the end of January.

A month, by the way, in which the elections for the Barça presidency should be held, as long as the plans announced by Tusquets are fulfilled, in turn conditioned by the health authorities of the Generalitat. The Barcelona Manager maintains that a immediate injection of 300 million euros (between the cut and the new business channels opened) to balance a budget that was furiously hit by the pandemic and conditioned by the closure of the Camp Nou to the public, but which for years had been neglected by Bartomeu, more aware of the propaganda obsession of the 1,000 million euros of income than of monitoring its monstrous item of expenses.

998.5 million invested in players

In fact, and according to the reports that this newspaper has had access to, the sports intangible fixed assets that include investments in the purchase of players in the consolidated balance sheet went from 688 million euros on July 1, 2018 to 998.5 million euros registered as of June 30, 2020. The increase was 45%.

In these last two seasons, players such as

Malcom

(40 million),

Arthur

(31),

Arturo vidal

(18) -these three are no longer in the club-,

Lenglet

(36),

Junior firpo

(18),

Frenkie de Jong

(75),

Net

(26),

Griezmann

(120) or

Braithwaite

(18) After the Manager assured that Barcelona's sports salaries are the highest in Europe, the footballers defend that they have already gone through a 15% salary cut during the past period of confinement.

According to the documentation to which EL MUNDO has had access, the expenditure on salaries of the sports personnel of the players and coaches of the first team was 353.72 million euros as of June 30, 2020. A year ago it was 417.26 millions of euros.

"We have already taken that step", maintain sources of the booth. In the aforementioned 353.72 million that the Manager intends to cut the salary (275.62 million), the collective bonuses (53.81 million), the payment to the social security (357,000 euros) or additional remuneration to annual payrolls that do not involve payment in the year (11.04 million euros) .The combined figure of the Barça club's expenditure on sports salaries is completed with 82.41 million euros of the rest of the sections, to reach 436.13 million euros.

The cost of salaries for the club's administrative staff is 50.98 million euros.

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