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HIS CONTRACT WAS ONE OF THE MOST 'JUICHY'

Gerard Piqué, the most benefited in the Bartomeu era

Published:22/01/2022 - 13:03h

Updated:22/01/2022 - 14:50h

Gerard Hammered has been one of the emblems of the Barcelona in the last decade. The defender made himself available to the club to help them with the economic crisis, although he was also greatly benefited by the old board

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The FC Barcelona has kept from the start of the pandemia a consistent problem with his economy. And it is that from the presidency of Josep María Bartomeu, the financial crisis of the institution began to have an effect of 'ball of snow' that did insoportable for the arks of the club. So much it was that the same managerial had to ask him to his players that reduced part of his wage to be able to achieve a bit of 'oxygen' in front of all the situation.

Now, ex members of the ancient managerial board of Bartomeu, have explained that Gerard Hammered was one of the players that more benefited inside the mandate of the previous leadership. In concrete, the defender accepted to earn some emolumentos by 28 million gross euros during two seasons, more a premium when withdrawing of some 12 'kilos'. All this would be credited to the account of the defender if it played, like minimum, the half of the parties of the season.

In case it was little, the dorsal '3' attained to reduce the tax of necessary meetings to be creditor of this money to only 35% of the parties. This yes, the Barça had in that then the authority to terminate this agreement of unilateral form and not to credit it in his whole. However, from the arrival of Joan Laporta to the presidency, so much the central like the new mandator have decided to do an adjust in his agreement because of the financial problems that continues dragging the entity.

It is important to highlight that, at all times, Hammered has been of the few players that put to disposal of the directive to help it to surpass the grave situation. Many of his mates, some considered 'holy cows', decided to do 'the fat sight' on the subject when the club asked them a reduction salarial. Only at the end of everything, when the situation already did unsustainable, went that they accessed to collaborate.

The release of mass salarial

One of the purposes of the Barça stops is season was to free part of the mass salarial to be able to balance his economy. The high wages of a lot of players have been a problem, and the index card of Philippe Coutinho, Ousmane Dembélé and Samuel Umtiti showed like the main problem. Nevertheless, by the moment, so much Coutinho like Umtiti have arrived to different agreements with the entity, and only remains to the earring the situation of Dembélé so that the team fulfil of one put very important.

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