2024-04-10 07:34:33
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo stole the spotlight this Sunday by revealing that the contract of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi is “the most expensive in the history of sports.” The media posted its Sunday cover on the Internet with a full-page banner with the spectacular figure: 555,237,619 million euros accompanied by the headline: Messi’s million-dollar contract that ruins Barca.
This amount of more than 555 million euros is to be collected in four seasons, between 2017/2018 and the current one, until its maturity on June 30. The figure is the sum of a fixed salary, image rights, a series of multimillion-dollar bonuses unprecedented to date, per diems and a rosary of variables depending on various objectives, says the leak of the details of the agreement.
“El Mundo” said it had a copy of the document signed by Messi with the Barça team on November 25, 2017, which “constitutes the largest contract in the history of sport” and whose content, according to the newspaper, has remained in “the most absolute secret” to date. Among the signatories of the contract appears the former president of the club Josep María Bartomeu, who had to resign last October as a result of conflicts with Messi who, after losing 8-2 with Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the last Champions League, expressed that he had thought of leaving Barcelona through a burofax, and that he did not maintain dialogue with Bartomeu, a statement that increased the pressure from the club’s members on the manager.
The leak from El Mundo occurs one month before the elections for a new Barca president and in the midst of the harsh economic crisis that the club is going through, after the publication of the economic balance sheet was announced last week, with a terrifying outlook for the club. future of the culé entity, and especially for the candidates for the elections on March 7.
