The reduction of wages that generated so much controversy around the Barcelona, and that even forced Lionel Messi issues a statement On behalf of the entire campus, it comes to an end. Starting Monday, May 4, players will regain part of their entire wages.
According to the newspaper ‘As’, the culés, who will return to the activity with the individual workouts, will go on to collect 98% of their salaries, as they will maintain the 2% reduction of their salary to help club employees during the ERTE period.
The players had agreed to a reduction of 70%, which meant a saving of about 14 million euros clean for each month that the confinement lasted. So after 51 days since the State of Alarm began in Spain, the total reduction will have meant a saving of 23.8 billion euros for the club.
The Government announced that phase zero of the de-escalation will begin next Monday, which will mean the possibility of holding individual sessions in sports centers for professional soccer players.
Now, the big problem for Barcelona, as for other teams, will be facing the salary mass of the first team players (about 243 million in chips), since in principle the only way of income would be television rights, since the Football would return behind closed doors so there will be no box office revenue or merchandising.
The training plan
The head of methodology of the culé painting, Paco Seirul·lo, explained how the Barça players will face the practice sessions and the type of work they will carry out.
“It will take short and specific training, games, to have a state of form not very long but sufficient to compete (…) The idea would be to do, instead of one workout a day, like now, up to three every day, shorter and more specific, with a good recovery between them ”, said Seirul·lo in an interview in Catalunya Ràdio.
The idea at Camp Nou is that the players, with this road map, are ready to compete in three or four weeks.
