2024-03-02 23:59:51
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The “bombshell” of the leak of the clauses of Lionel Messi’s super contract with Barcelona was the world sports news of the major media in the universe. Both parties have hinted that they would initiate legal action against the Spanish newspaper El Mundo after the headline Messi’s million-dollar contract ruins Barca.
This Sunday, El Mundo filled its entire front page with the exclusive announcement of the more than 555 million euros in four seasons from 2017/18 to date to be paid by Messi, an amount that the newspaper described as “a pharaonic contract that ruins the Boat.”
According to the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia Messi will take legal action. His lawyers are working “on a complaint against El Mundo for the publication of the contract” and are studying “involving those within the club who had access to said contract and could have leaked it.” This would mean pointing out both the members of the previous Barca board of directors chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu, as well as the president of the Management Board, Carles Tusquets, or the CEO of the entity, Óscar Grau. This demand would be added to the one announced by FC Barcelona this Sunday.
The club “categorically” denies that it has leaked Leo Messi’s contract and regrets that the contract “has become publicly known”, since it is “an exclusively private document” and is governed by the principle of “confidentiality between the parts”. In the United States, these types of lawsuits may not prosper since in the United States the letter of these types of contracts are public.
“FC Barcelona expresses its absolute support for Lionel Messi, especially in the face of any attempt to discredit his image, and damage his relationship with the entity where he has been trained in sports, until he became the best player in the history of football,” were the words expressed in the statement.
