A nice smile with a lot of zero behind for Leo Messi.
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HO / BARCELONA FC PRESS OFFICE / AFP
If it is rather rare in Spain to see a newspaper like
El Mundo
make its football front page, that of Sunday risks causing quite a stir in the country, and more particularly in Barcelona.
Indeed, the newspaper has chosen to highlight the XXL contract signed by Leo Messi with Barça in November 2017 and that links him to the club until the end of the season, with the title: "The pharaonic contract that ruined Barça ”.
The newspaper obtained documents detailing line by line the Catalan expenses related to the renovation of the Argentine in the club.
On arrival, the club will have spent, hang in there, 555,237,619 euros, or the trifle of 138 million euros per season.
With an annual fixed salary estimated at around 61 million euros, the number 10 also received an additional 11 million euros per year for his image rights.
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Not to mention the monstrous signing bonus, which amounts to 115 million euros and nearly 77 million euros in loyalty bonus.
This leak in the media which does not do the business of President Josep Maria Bartomeu, at the very moment when it was learned that the club's debt exceeded one billion euros, is it trivial?
Hard to believe, especially in the middle of the campaign for the presidency of the club.
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What is certain, however, is that with such salary conditions, and while Messi is free to sign where he wants next season, the club will find it difficult to offer the same conditions to Pulga in the possibility of a new contract extension.
Clubs on the lookout to sign the Argentine are already rubbing their hands.
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