Lionel Messi (1987-), Argentine footballer
The contract renewal negotiations have reached a preliminary agreement, however, Barcelona is due to the salary system taut, delayed to publicize the official renewal news. According to the goal network, if Barcelona does not quickly solve this urgent problem, not only Aguero, Depay, Eric Garcia, Emerson and other new aid will not be able to register, and even Messi himself after the renewal of the registration will also be a problem!
In order to quickly free up payroll space, Barcelona have sold players such as Filpo, Conrad and Todibo, and Trincombe has been loaned to Wolves. Matthews, who rarely played last season, was even released from his contract. Nonetheless, Barca's payroll problems remain severe, with the contracts of Umtiti, Pjanic and Coutinho needing to be dealt with. Barca have promised them free transfers, and if they refuse to accept them, Barca hope to at least let them go out on loan. If these contracts are successfully dealt with, Barcelona will have €89.7 million in released payroll space.
However, even so, Barcelona's salary problem remains unsolved. In this context, Barcelona can only use 25% of the aforementioned 89.7 million euros to renew Messi's contract and sign new recruits. Even if you don't take Messi's high salary into account, the annual pre-tax salary of the four new recruits has totaled 29 million euros, which has exceeded 25% of the 89.7 million euros. Therefore, Barcelona also need to continue to clean up redundancies and implement team salary cuts. Barcelona has pushed the issue of Griezmann's salary to the transfer market and asked the players to re-sign their contracts and take a collective 50% pay cut. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Barcelona to get over this hurdle.
