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MILLIONAIRE DEBT

The total amount that the FC Barcelona still has to pay to Leo Messi

Published:13/08/2021 - 17:50h

Updated:13/08/2021 - 19:33h

Leo Messi left Barça, but the club still has to pay him a very high amount of money that was deferred last year in the midst of the pandemic

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Lionel Messi left to be player of the FC Barcelona recently more than a week, but the club still has to pay him all the money that has to him. With his unexpected exit of the Camp Nou, to consequence of the grave economic problems of the club and the impossibility to inscribe it in LaLiga by the limit salarial, the club is forced to resolve the last pending fringes of the relation Barça-Messi and will have to follow paying him... Even without being Barcelona player.

As it has desvelado the newspaper 'SPORT', the Barcelona entity has several pending payments to Leo, but the most significant is one of 52 million euros. It is necessary to trace back until mediated of 2020 to understand this millionaire debt that has the Barça with 'The Flea', remembering that in the beginning of the pandemia of the coronavirus, with the closing of the stadiums and the free fall in the income of the Barcelona and all the clubs, the staff pactó a diferimiento of his wage for 'help' to the club.

In this moment, the then president Josep María Bartomeu agreed with the footballers postpone a percentage of his wages and in the particular case of Leo Messi the figure rose to the 52 'kilos', of agreement to the information that has desvelado 'Sport' this Friday. Before, it had especulado that the mount treated of a premium of fidelación, but everything seems to indicate that it corresponds to what 'The Flea' left to earn during the past season.

When it will pay the Barça to Messi?

Always of agreement to the before quoted source, in the FC Barcelona expect saldar his pending accounts with the footballer of 34 years between what subtracts of this year, 2021, and medidados of the 2022. Right now, Would be negotiating between the lawyers the terms in which the club will finish paying the mount remaining to the 'crack' of Rosario.

In theory, would not have to have any problem in the negotiations, because it was something that was foreseen from the past year and to what Messi accessed, to the equal that the rest of his mates. However, his rugged exit of the club of the City Condal, with destination to the Paris Saint-Germain, could cause that his lawyers presionen more for 'finish' definitively the relation with the Barça and saldar all the accounts, to happen the page definitively.

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