The newspaper “El Mundo” caused a sensational surprise to explode regarding the mythical requests of Lionel Messi, which ignited the crisis of the renewal of the contract with Barcelona, and therefore to leave the club.
The newspaper reached secret files containing all of Messi’s contracts from joining the Masia to the time he left the club in tears.
The details of the contracts in Messi’s 20 years spent within the walls of the Camp Nou seem logical until the breakthrough that caused his departure came.
According to “El Mundo”, the story began in 2020, when Messi asked the Barcelona administration to lead Josep Maria Bartomeu made these requests for the renewal of the contract:
- Allow him to leave Barcelona whenever he wants with a penalty clause of € 10,000.
- Financial compensation for the deduction of his salary during the Crown period, with an interest of 3%.
- Signing bonus of € 10 million.
- A private plane to take his whole family to Argentina for Christmas.
- A private room at Camp Nou for his family and the Suarez family.
Bartomeu’s management accepted the terms, except for the € 700 million release clause, and that the signing bonus was conditional on the club’s return to a better economic situation.
Messi’s representatives disagreed at the time and negotiations for the renewal of the contract have been suspended.
On 11 June 2020, Messi’s agents returned to contact the administration to renew by signing a contract for three seasons with the possibility of an extension, at that moment Messi came out admitting that his salary had been reduced by 20% in the season 2020/21 season due to the Corona virus, but the following should be done:
A refund of 10% in the 2021/202 season and another 10% in the 22/23 season plus 3% interest on any deferred amount previously agreed with the club.
Things got complicated between the two sides and he refused Bartomeu, the two conditions of the agents for renewal, remained as it is.
Bartomeu and the entire management left after his trust was withdrawn against the backdrop of the “Jet Boat” and the huge debts incurred by the club and caused the deterioration of economic conditions.
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Juan Laporta came to see the conditions that occurred between the management of Bartomeu and Leo Messi, But he found those requests difficult to reach and rejected.
On 9 August 2020, the fateful day arrived when Messi left the club of his childhood after a 20-year relationship with Paris Saint-Germain.
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