Lionel Messi to earn £170k-a-week until 2025 even after Barcelona exit

Barcelona’s settlement with Lionel Messi ensures future funds.

Barcelona have been having a heavy quantity of monetary issues for fairly a while now. Nonetheless, with the election and a brand new president developing on the finish of this month, issues are beginning to look constructive for the membership.

The Catalans completely annihilated gamers from the squad within the 2020 summer season switch window after being financially hit after the lockdown attributable to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The gross sales of former gamers allowed the membership to unlock wages whereas elevating funds for any new signings.

This case was inevitable given the sum of money Barca spent on the likes of Philippe Coutinho, Antoine Griezmann, and Ousmane Dembele over the previous few years. The gross sales of undesirable gamers, in keeping with newly appointed Ronald Koeman, freed up costly wage payments that the membership used to pay out to the likes of Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal, and Luis Suarez, which had been completely an astonishing sum of money.

Barca are nonetheless beneath monetary stress and the brand new administration would want to type out funds for potential signings and participant wages, most significantly that of Lionel Messi. With the Argentine now set to be a free agent in the summertime of 2021, Barca may want to supply a brand new and improved contract to their captain.

Reports, nevertheless, now recommend that Barcelona should pay wages to Messi even when the Argentine decides to depart in keeping with his newest settlement with the membership. Over the past contract signing in 2017, the Catalan giants had reportedly elevated Messi’s wages by 100 million euros. The membership additionally supplied him a 78 million greenback bonus. Half of that bonus was solely only in the near past paid off this yr. The opposite half of it’s nonetheless left which shall be paid weekly to Messi till the quantity is totally fulfilled.

Therefore, up till the yr 2025 or extra, the Catalans should pay a tough quantity of 170,000 euros per week to the Catalan legend to be able to fulfill this present contract. The Argentine positively has the choice to depart Blaugrana in the summertime switch window of 2021 with Mauricio Pochettino’s Paris Saint-Germain and Josep Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City presently the favorites to land the Argentine’s signature.

If Messi does find yourself leaving the membership, he is not going to solely be incomes wages from the long run membership but in addition obtain a weekly cheque from Soccer membership Barcelona. A tough quantity of 170,000 euros should be paid to the Argentine weekly, until the yr 2025 to ensure that the Catalans to meet their settlement of the contract.

Will this settlement trigger extra monetary hardship for Barca?