Will Lionel Messi’s salary ruin FC Barcelona?

Updated February 01, 2021, 6:35 a.m.

I have no idea what you earn on the day. Lionel Messi made the numbers public over the weekend. Allegedly, the world star of FC Barcelona has collected 210,000 euros net every day since 2017. In total, all gross: 555,237,619 euros. Perhaps the details of the number have been added a little exaggerated and therefore not entirely correct. But even if it’s only half of it: It’s simply too much money for a person whose job only consists of delighting crowds with plenty of skill at the ball.

Therefore, FC Barcelona controls towards the abyss and you can be happy if it doesn’t mean: Game over! Lionel Messi’s contract expires at the end of the season, and he will then probably get a salary from Paris Saint-Germain that will make his fortune grow. What remains is an association that has taken over. It is not Lionel Messi’s fault that he took the money he was offered and made possible through tax tricks. The guilt lies with the club and the association.

Excesses in international football are not stopped

At the club because some decision-makers wanted to buy their success and thus their raison d’etre. With the association because there are still no regulations to stop the excesses in international football and you can watch the wild growth. Financial fair play is a farce when some live and invest beyond their means and thus mock the others who do not consider business administration to be a leisurely bar-crawl. For example Bayern.

Football management could be so simple: You can don’t spend more than you have, and that little bit more that you want to spend as future investment and have to borrow must be repaid within three to five years. If you don’t do it, you are thrown out of the Champions League and are not allowed to have the big say in the Superleague debate to stammer the old money with new money. For so much justice in football the Uefa people would need guts. But they don’t. And watch the goings-on in silence.

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