Lionel Messi: Future after new defeat of FC Barcelona, ​​millionaire clause in his contract | Spanish League

Lionel Messi suffered a new break in his relationship with FC Barcelona this Sunday: he suffered the first expulsion in his 15-year history at the club.

And it is not that that supposes anything particular, it is rather what was behind that red card, which was the product of impotence.

Messi reacted in the most earthly way when he saw how the boat sank in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, how his team wasted the advantage that Griezmann achieved twice and how, in extra time, the rival scored 2-3 and He did not give a single space to change luck: another defeat; another title that escapes; another sign that, with the current payroll, no more celebrations will come; another blow, at last, to the battered relationship between the captain and his team.

The moment joins a chain of disagreements that started with the famous burofax (he resigned from FC Barcelona), followed the club’s refusal to let him go, and has been weaving day after day in this month of January, when, according to his contract, you will be legally entitled to hear other offers.

He himself recently admitted that Barcelona were in a “very bad situation”, that there is no money for Ronald Koeman to transform a veteran team that, once again, has failed in a final instance. As if that were not enough, Emi Rousaud, a former candidate for the club’s presidential elections, stated that the forward’s current salary was “unsustainable”, a reality that the current Management Commission had already admitted.

And to all this, one more pearl: a clause in Messi’s contract that, even outside the institution, would continue to charge the club until 2025. Thus, as is.

According to the newspaper Marca in Spain, Messi will collect a whopping 39 million euros at the end of the current campaign, which is equivalent to half the bonus of 78 million euros he agreed to when he last renewed his contract in 2017. He has already collected the other half and, according to the agreement, eight separate payments are missing over four years, which will be paid even if he plays for another club, even if he scores goals against FC Barcelona.

Messi is expected not to make a final decision until the end of his contract, next June, and Manchester City and PSG are known to be on the lookout. Certainly more defeats in the finals don’t help his decision to stay. And know that the same will charge, less.