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Barça, condemned to pay 7.7 million for Bartomeu’s worst signing

BarcelonaIn full depression due to the drop in income caused by the covid pandemic, Joan Laporta’s Barça looked for a way to lower the salary bill of the first team with a dismissal that it tried to be appropriate. The person affected, Matheus Fernandes, was no longer on the payroll with immediate effect. He had arrived quietly, recommended by adviser André Cury (a key intermediary for Neymar to sign for Barça in 2014) in exchange for 8.5 million euros at Palmeiras and a contract until 2025, but Ronald Koeman did not want him to use more than in an official match against Dynamo Kyiv.

After an unfruitful transfer to Valladolid, the Brazilian midfielder returned to the Blaugrana club, which on June 29, 2021 decided to send him off unilaterally by email, citing technical and physical reasons. At that time, Barça knew that the player would report and probably win. That is why he included part of the future defeat in the courts within the 90 million litigations calculated in the losses of the economic closure 20/21. A year and a half later, the contrary verdict has already arrived, according to Cadena SER this Tuesday and was able to confirm ARA.

Advised by his lawyer, Matheus sued for unfair dismissal and claimed a total of 14.8 million between compensation and moral damages. The resolution of the case arrived in November 2022 and obliges Barça to pay 7.7 million euros corresponding to the full salary agreed until 2025 and 810,000 euros derived from a salary deferral. The first amount has already been used by the club, while the second was satisfied on the day. Blaugrana sources consulted by the ARA admit that part of what is claimed in the judgment would be covered thanks to the provision that Laporta and the former CEO, Ferran Reverter, included at the end of the 20/21 financial year. The remaining part, in case the appeal does not succeed, would impact the current accounting book.

Matheus is playing the first Brazilian

In parallel with the evolution of the open case for his dismissal from Barça, Matheus continues his professional career in Brazil. He first returned to Palmeiras, the club where he was trained, and later moved first to Paranaense and then to Bragantino, who are currently fourteenth in the Brasileirao. Shortly after being dismissed as Barça, Fernandes declared a Globo: “I was at my house with my wife and I got a message from the club staff asking if I kept the email address, I confirmed it and later I got the dismissal communication. There was no no conversation, they didn’t even call me to say goodbye.” As detailed by the SER, one of the arguments that appears in the judgment is that Barça, to justify the impending dismissal, accompanied the report of a physical trainer who never agreed with the player at the club.

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