Messi's astronomical salary may pose a problem for the future president of Barça.

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Should a possible future president say that?

Invited by the sports daily

As

to unroll its program in the event of victory in the elections for the presidency of Barça on January 24, Emili Rousaud, gave a pragmatic speech on the state of the club.

Speech that should not necessarily appeal to Socios.

According to him, “in the current environment of the club, Messi's salary is not sustainable.

It is unbearable.

An agreement must be found.

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Paid in excess of 50 million euros per year,

La Pulga

will therefore have to make concessions if Emili Rousaud is elected, unless he looks elsewhere, as he had already envisaged last summer.

Barça also had to resolve to negotiate with the players to postpone the payments of the last salaries, proof that the blaugrana boat is pitching dangerously this season.

Rousaud nevertheless sells an "attractive" project

The former right-hand man of the resigning president Josep Maria Bartomeu also returned to this episode.

"What matters [for Messi] is the sporting project," he recalled.

When he said he was leaving, he didn't say it for the money.

He has the highest salary in the world, there is no one who earns more than him.

But he wants to leave because he wants to win titles.

He has already said that the current situation is not enough for him.

He wants a team with talent.

"But will Barça be able to meet his expectations?

Hard to believe when you hear Rousaud's “Churchillian” speech, which seems to be able to promise supporters nothing but sweat and tears in the future.

All the same, in this gloomy picture, he managed to play the tightrope walker by maintaining keenly that the project he proposed to them was "attractive".

Finally, Rousaud returned to Neymar's exit about Messi who set the Ramblas on fire: “We spoke with Neymar's entourage.

He has made statements interpreted by some to mean that he wants Messi to go to Paris and not that he wants him to return to Barca.

Now we cannot pay for his transfer and it would be at the end of his contract [that he would come back] ”.

Probably very sincere in his statements, Emili Rousaud should however find it difficult to get elected on a program that promises nothing other than the end of the Barcelona dream ...

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