The curtain has come down on the history of the best star in football history, Lionel Messi, with his team Barcelona, after years of records and collective and individual titles at the Camp Nou, in a march phenomenon that swept all social media sites. sites around the world.
Barcelona officials came out in an official statement to talk about the official departure of Argentine star Lionel Messi from Barcelona due to financial and structural obstacles related to the regulations of the Spanish League, so what are these obstacles?
The beginning was in “2013”, when the “La Liga” established a specialized department in “economic control” that put a strict limit on the expenses of the champion clubs in the first and second divisions.
The limit set by La Liga’s “economic control” department included the total amount that domestic first and second division clubs could spend on first-team players, coaching staff and “alternate” teams as well. Spent on academy players affiliated with the club and any unregistered players affiliated with the club.
The “Economic Control” section of the Spanish League gave all clubs the right to choose how spending on resources is divided, but this right is conditional on not exceeding the total spending specified by the division.
Since the 2013 edition, specifically before each summer transfer period, the Spanish League requires all clubs to provide data that includes the expected income for the next season, as well as profits, as well as losses from previous years, and the club’s external sources of funding. Daily savings, debts and costs. from the audience.
Thus, when any club wants to register a new contract with the Spanish League, the “economic control” team checks the club’s budget to make the final and appropriate decision to register the player or not.
Barcelona crisis
Applying the above to FC Barcelona, the real crisis dates back to the previous city council contract headed by Josep Maria Bartomeu, who signed a series of new players for the Catalan team with huge salaries, a measure that was affected by the spread of the Corona virus, as Barcelona was affected more economically than any other club by this epidemic.
Barcelona is currently unable to register new players, except in the case of selling players from the strength of Barcelona, so the Catalan club has a sufficient budget to pay the salaries of its players, since the team leaders have failed so far. To score new agreements, Sergio Aguero, Memphis Depay, Eric Garcia and Emerson Royal due to that crisis.
And the Spanish newspaper “Sport” recalls in this regard, with a recent report, that Barcelona’s leaders were open to the idea of selling players such as Antoine Griezmann and Philippe Coutinho to get rid of their huge salaries and recruit new players.
Historic departure
And the Spanish newspaper “AS” had reported in a previous report that Argentine star Lionel Messi had agreed in advance to reduce his salary by 50% to extend his contract with Barcelona and stay for a longer period at the “Camp Nou”.
To solve Messi’s crisis with Barcelona, according to the deteriorating financial situation of the Catalan club, the Argentine was forced to reduce 80 or even 90% of his salary in order to extend his contract with Barcelona, so Laporta tried to convince Javier Tebas. The president of the “La Liga” federation, gets an exception for his club in order to extend the period. Al-Barghouth, “but the latter categorically refused, according to the Spanish newspaper” Sport “.
Tebas, president of the “La Liga” association, had earlier spoken about Messi’s crisis in a press statement, saying: “I hope Barcelona can solve Messi’s salary crisis, but to register it they have to reduce part of their budget. An exception to Messi or Haaland.”
According to Spanish press reports, Tebas was convinced that if Messi excluded Barcelona’s captain, the economic project of La Liga would later collapse completely.
In light of that crisis that has afflicted Barcelona since the crown epidemic, Barcelona no longer has the possibility of finding an exception to solve the crisis of Messi’s salary in his new contract and his registration in the league, and then the historical exit was the realistic one. resolution. .