With each passing day, the question mark surrounding the future of Leo Messi is growing and today (Sunday) the details of his huge contract in Barcelona leaked indicating its poor conduct. Flea himself already intends to sue the newspaper for revealing the details and in the global media, of course, the issue has become the talk of the day when the suspicion is that this is a planned timing.
Clarin suspected that this was an initiated attack and wrote: “Could it be that Barcelona know that Messi will leave in June anyway and take the opportunity to attack him?”. “Of course we are talking mainly about Messi’s contract and not about replica contracts received by other players like Luis Suarez and Ivan Rakitić who left in the summer,” Ola was quoted as saying, “He is still the player who sells tickets because the crowd comes to watch him play.”
Despite speculation that Barcelona are attacking Messi due to the fact that he apparently has no intention of extending his contract, presidential candidate Victor Pont has backed the flea. “Leo Messi won thanks to every euro he received from Barcelona. He did not destroy us, but the opposite. He is the best player in our history and we want him to stay forever,” he tweeted.
Barcelona itself also issued a statement in support of the star: “We deny any responsibility for the publication of Messi’s contract and will take legal action against the newspaper. We want to express unreserved support for Messi, especially in the face of trying to damage his image and relationship with the club where he became the best player in the world.”
By the way, the Spanish media calculated the amount that Messi had already earned from those 555,237,619 euros and found that he had already received 92.1 percent of them – 511,540,548 euros. The base salary of the contract has been paid to him almost in full and now the bonuses remain in line with the achievements that Barcelona will reach this season.
The following are the details of the wage dispute:
Base salary: 245,314,080 euros (61,328,520 euros per season)
If playing 60% of the games: 4,968,102 – 6,624,136 euros (1,656,034 per season)
Promotion to the last eight of the Champions League: 3,785,220 euros (946,305 per season)
Promotion to the Champions League quarterfinals: 4,258,374 – 5,677,844 euros (1,419,458 per season).
Promotion to the Champions League semi-finals: 1,419,461 – 5,677,844 euros (1,419,461 per season)
Promotion to final: 5,677,844 euros
Winning the Champions League: 14,194,576 euros
Winning the Spanish Championship: 4,731,532 – 9,463,064 euros (2,365,766 per season)
Winning the Spanish Cup: 591,442 – 2,365,765 euros.
Winning FIFA Player of the Year: 591,442 – 2,365,768 euros.
On the renewal of the contract: 97,941,250 euros
Loyalty bonus: 66,240,462 euros
Image rights: 43,290,720 euros.