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“We are proud of this decision,” says Gerard Piqué about the waiver
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The debts of FC Barcelona should now amount to 1.2 billion euros. The club could no longer afford the superstar Messi. Now four well-known professionals are giving up their salaries to support their employers.
SThey had come to an agreement. Lionel Messi, who has since hired Paris St. Germain, would have been willing to forego a lot of money. In the end, the superstar’s courtesy was of no use. Because even the sum that FC Barcelona and the players had agreed was not enough to keep the Argentine busy under the new salary rules of the Spanish league.
How bad things are financially for the Catalan club is now shown by the fact that the four captains will forego their salaries in the future in order to help their employer. This announced Gerard Piqué, one of the four captains, according to the AP news agency on Sunday.
“Are proud of the decision”
Accordingly, the other three captains Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Sergi Roberto should also be ready to cut their salaries. Piqué’s salary has already been cut so that national goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen’s club could register new players such as Memphis Depay and Eric Garcia under the rules of the Spanish league.
“The other captains will soon do the same. Due to time constraints, I had to be the first so we could register the players. The captains always intended to make the adjustments the club needed. We are proud of this decision, ”said Piqué after the opening win against Real Sociedad San Sebastian (4-2) on Sunday, the first league game without Messi.
The Argentine said goodbye to FC Barcelona in an emotional press conference a week ago on Sunday. Only three days later it was presented as an access in the French capital in the premises of PSG.
The statutes of the financial fair play of the Spanish league did not allow continued employment – Barca are said to have debts of around 1.2 billion euros.
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