Exclusive: Leo Messi's pharaonic contract that ruins Barcelona
Repercussions: Strong impact in Argentina of EL MUNDO's exclusive on Lionel Messi contract
There were those who warned that, on the cover of EL MUNDO seized until 00:30 yesterday, a phrase by
Leo Messi appeared
next to the logo.
"Money allows you to live better, but it is not what inspires me, I live to play football not for its economic benefits, I also play for the team and not for myself," one could read, some statements made by the footballer years ago in an interview with the British newspaper
The Mirror,
and there was no better clue to guess where the information would go.
The expectation soared with the detail - the television channel
Gol
even superimposed a countdown - and once he touched the clock, the news began to revolve around an exaggerated figure:
555,237,619 euros.
The exclusive on the biggest contract in the history of sport, the one that joins Barcelona with Messi since 2017 and until next summer, was read by almost a million users on elmundo.es, it was collected, analyzed and dissected on televisions, radios and newspapers around the world, became an
immediate
Trending Topic
on social networks and, ultimately, starred in a Sunday that ended with Messi in action against
Athletic
at the
Camp Nou.
"Messi, the biggest contract in the history of sport", was the opening all morning of the
Marca
website
,
which made a compilation of the many figures published by EL MUNDO, and accompanied it with evaluations and opinions as did the rest of Spanish sports and generalist newspapers.
News in L'Equipe (France).
"The secrets of Lionel Messi's solid gold contract at Barça", he titled
L'Equipe
in
France.
"Messi and his contract of 555 million", replied
La Gazzetta dello Sport
in
Italy.
"Messi's contract with Barcelona included a 102 million pound renewal clause," highlighted
The Sun
in
the UK.
"Controversy over Messi's gigantic salary", analyzed the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
in
Germany.
"Messi's salary is 555 million,"
USA Today
repeated
in the
United States.
"A newspaper reveals the contract of 555 million that unites Barcelona with Messi", underlined
Folha de Sao Paulo
in
Brazil.
And so an endless etcetera in which the most widely read newspapers in each country were collecting the information from this newspaper as did televisions and radios from all over the world.
From
CNN
to the
BBC they
named yesterday's exclusive EL MUNDO in their newscasts with a special analysis by
US
ESPN
that highlighted one of the amounts revealed: "Messi received 193 million euros for being loyal to Barcelona."
The American ESPN dedicated a special analysis to the case.
In Messi's country,
Argentina,
the news had a strong impact, with its main media reproducing the shocking front page of EL MUNDO, reports
Sebastián Fest
from Buenos Aires.
Some of the most widely read newspapers added opinions, many emphasizing the titles won by Messi with Barcelona -as
Clarín did-
and others highlighting the weight of the contract in the budget of the Barça club.
«Nothing will ever be like it used to be in Barcelona, which was walking its glory around the world and is now a prisoner of hell, dictated by the figures that instill fear.
A liability of 1,173 million euros and a short-term debt of 773 million are numbers set on fire ”, it could be read in
La Nación.
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