In numbers.. Pique gets the highest salary for a defender in the world

El Mundo, the most famous newspaper in Spain, continued to publish figures for Barcelona stars, and after the Argentine Lionel Messi, the current Paris Saint-Germain player, it was the turn of Barcelona defender, Gerard Pique, as the newspaper confirmed by numbers that Pique receives the highest annual salary for a defender in the scientist.

And it revealed that Pique's total salary amounts to 28.4 million euros without incentives, after renewing his contract for five years in the 2018 season.

And the newspaper said, based on confirmed information and documents in its possession from a private source from within the Barcelona club administration, that Pique, during negotiations with the Barcelona administration during the presidency of Joseph Bartomeu previously, asked to make him the highest defender in the world in terms of salary, and stressed the need to exceed his net salary without taxes. What he gets at the time, former Real Madrid star Sergio Ramos.

Ramos was receiving 12.5 million euros, and in return Pique received 15 million euros, to rise, according to the newspaper, through several commercial requirements related to the renewal of the contract to a total salary of more than 28 million euros, without calculating incentives, which makes him receive a very huge annual salary, Compared to any other defender in the world.

After obtaining what he wanted, Pique got involved through his public relations company "Cosmos" in the case of the Frenchman, Griezmann, and then in other problems with the former Bartomeu administration, which caused a great dispute within the club and among the senior players.

Although Pique reduced his salary during the Corona crisis, he continued to receive large sums of money until today, which explains the insistence of the current administration to get rid of him, after he became confined to the bench under the leadership of coach Xavi.

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