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Lionel Messi’s deal “is set to cost Barcelona a staggering £ 492m when it expires this summer. Star guarantees £ 122m per season gross salary from the deal he signed four years ago” as the giants’ financial troubles continue
- The Lionel Messi deal costs Barcelona £ 492million
- The 33-year-old is expected to leave the Nou camp for free this summer
- A combination of salary, image rights, and other variables added to the cost
- Barcelona are in financial disarray as the pandemic plunges them into crisis
Lionel Messi’s current contract will cost Barcelona € 555million after the end of this summer, El Mundo reported on Sunday.
The four-year contract was signed in 2017 and ends in June of this year, when the 33-year-old can leave for free.
El Mundo says the combination of fixed salary, image rights, variables and the tax that Barcelona had to pay on the contract will rise to € 555,237,619.
Lionel Messi’s Barcelona deal will cost the financially troubled club a whopping £ 492million
The number was revealed by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, which outlined Barcelona’s financial troubles
Messi has been guaranteed € 138m (£ 122m) gross salary per season under the leaked contract.
The leak is likely to upset Messi’s camp and further destabilize Barcelona as the club faces elections originally scheduled for last week but now postponed to March 7th due to the coronavirus.
It comes days after the club released its 2019-20 financial report, which revealed gross debt of 1.2 billion euros (1 billion pounds).
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