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DIVISION IN THE STAFF

This is how the Barça players would have reacted to the salary reduction

Published:25/03/2020 - 12:34h

Updated:25/03/2020 - 12:34h

Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the Barça, has proposed to recess the wage of the footballers and the staff would have reacted with disparity of opinions

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All the European sportive competitions have had to stop because of the grave sanitary crisis that has caused the coronavirus. In the football, the affectation has produced so much in the domestic leagues of each country as in the international competitions like the Champions League or the Europe League. The period of suspension seems that it will lengthen several weeks and, to day of today, there is not date of return.

Of course, the arrest of the competitions has left to the clubs in a tremendously delicate situation in the economic section. Big part of the income of the entities proceed of the television rights and of the sale of entrances, two concepts by which, suddenly, have left to earn. The losses encipher in cientos of millions and, of course, the consequences are grave.

In front of the option to present an ERTE, Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the FC Barcelona, preferred to reach an agreement with the Barcelona staff in which it posed the gesture to adjust his wages in accordance with the current situation, that does not allow to cover a so wide cost like which there is in the club with all the wages. According to the newspaper Sport, there is division in the changing room in this regard.

Three groups of opinion in the staff of the Barça

As said media, the first group of players is the one who does not accept the application of a discount salarial because it considers that the club has not done a good management of his economic resources and that, therefore, do not have to it pay they. The players "do not understand why the president has to resort to they when the club has effected economic investments in signings that, consider, do not have any sense neither contribute at all", ensures.

Another part of the changing room comprises the delicate situation and considers acceptable the application of the discount salarial proposal by the directive of the FC Barcelona. Still no hanbrían given the 'OK' definite since would be studying the agreements, but the predisposition to observe the proposals of Bsrtomeu is good.

In third place, another part of the changing room will remit to the thesis of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) before positioning and take decisions. According to the informations desveladas by the Chain Cope, the AFE would have gathered with the League to arrive to an agreement in the case that the league did not restart before 30 June because of the sanitary crisis by the coronavirus,​ something that would carry to the footballers to go down the wage a ten percent.

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