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

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Josep LAGO / AFP

The candidates for the election for the presidency of FC Barcelona Joan Laporta and Victor Font assured Monday that Lionel Messi "generates more" money than he earns, after the revelations Sunday on his astronomical contract with the Catalan club .

“Leo generates a lot more income than it costs.

We had a study done and it generates a third of Barça's total income, ”said ex-president and candidate Joan Laporta, in statements to Catalan radio Rac1 on Monday.

"Messi generates a third of the club's total income"

His competitor Victor Font also assured that “Messi generates all of this and more for the club.

To suggest that Barça are ruined because of Messi is an absolutely wrong conclusion, ”he said in an interview with Onda Cero radio.

Both reacted after the Spanish general daily

El Mundo on

Sunday published the details of the contract signed by Lionel Messi with Barça in November 2017 and which runs until June 2021.

According to

El Mundo

, this contract “amounts to 555,237,619 euros gross, to be collected in four seasons (…) until its expiry on June 30”.

And the Argentine superstar has received 511.2 million euros gross since the signing of this contract, between his salary, image rights and various bonuses.

Laporta and Font both want to keep it

Both candidates condemned what they believe was a 'leak' and insisted that they will do everything possible to keep Messi at Barca after the summer, when his contract expires on June 30.

“We have to do everything in our power to keep Messi.

That was the case in 2017, and today too, ”said Font.

Laporta, who experienced the explosion of the Pulga (chip, in Spanish) during his first term at the head of Barça (2003-2010), assured that he will do "everything possible so that Messi remains at Barça.

I have clues that tell me that he feels good in Barcelona, ​​that he wants to stay, ”Laporta said.

"It is not only an economic spring - because Messi also generates a third of the income of Barça - but also an emotional and sporting spring, and all the moments lived with him", concluded Laporta.

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