FC Barcelona has reported that Lionel Messi won’t be getting back to the club after monetary issues kept them from concurring with the forward on another contract. In previous contracts, Messi endorsed in 2017, he purportedly earned 138 million euros ($163 million) per season.
The coronavirus pandemic has affected the FC Barcelona club tremendously. The league slashed its salary cap last season and the club had been attempting to clear cover space by releasing some of its players. It had just signed free agents this summer — including Memphis Depay, Sergio Aguero, and Eric Garcia — to try not to pay transfer fees. The class had declared on Wednesday that it got $3.2 billion in private value subsidizing to help the clubs, which seemed to make ready for Barcelona to re-sign the Argentina star. But the efforts went down the drain as the authorities interacted with the agents of the players.
Lionel Messi is to head out in different directions from FC Barcelona, the Spanish giants have affirmed. While both player and club had consented to a five-year contract extension, La Liga’s salary cap rules imply that despite the party’s understanding, the new contract can’t be signed under alliance rules. Messi’s old contract was terminated recently.
“Despite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having agreed and the reasonable goal of the two players to sign another contract today, this can’t occur because of monetary and structural obstacles (Spanish Liga regulations),” Barcelona said in a statement. Spanish clubs must follow a spending limit, which includes cash spent on salaries and signings, dictated by LaLiga.
Messi had attempted to leave Barcelona in August 2020, asking for an exit after a breakdown in his relationship with president Josep Maria Bartomeu however successor Joan Laporta, who presided over the Argentine’s rise to greatness, persuaded him to stay.
“Due to this unforeseen situation, Messi shall not be representing the FC Barcelona. The two players profoundly lament that the wishes of the player and the club will eventually not be satisfied. Messi has an unparting history with the LaLiga club where he joined the FC Barcelona Team at the age of 13. He made his first appearance in the year 2004 and has given all-around success to FC Barcelona for 17 straight years. Messi, who joined Barca’s childhood set-up matured 13, is the club’s record-breaking top scorer and appearance creator with 672 goals in 778 games in all competitions.
During those periods of 17 years, Messi has bagged up to 35 titles which include 10 La Liga titles, eight Supercopa de Espanas, four UEFA Champions League crowns, and seven Copa del Reys. He scored against every one of the teams in the 2012/13 LaLiga crusade, rising to the sign of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo in 2011/12. Lionel Messi is the solitary player who has scored against the most teams in the Champions League. He has scored against 36 distinct opponents, surpassing Real Madrid’s Legend Cristiano Ronaldo’s 35.
