Gary Lineker watches and comments a lot on football – on television, but also on Twitter. If his former clubs play, the former world-class striker leaves his Follower especially like to participate. Late on Sunday evening (January 31, 2021), however, he was silent about the weak performance of the Tottenham Hotspur and dedicated himself to Pascal Gross, who created the template for the 1-0 winning goal from Brighton and Hove Albion gave.
The FC Barcelona, in which Lineker played between 1986 and 1989, but won 2-1 against Athletic Bilbao. Lionel Messi scored one of the two goals with a beautiful free kick. “Time for a raise”, commented Lineker on Twitter.
This is the humorous approach to a topic that came up on Sunday morning. Not that humanity didn’t know Lionel Messi was being showered with money. Corresponding revelations and extremely obvious assumptions had already been made.
But the newspaper “The sports world” had hammered a number on her front page with force on Sunday. Messi, it was read, earned exactly 555,237,619 euros from 2017 to 2021.
That would be:
138,809,405 euros a year
11,567,450.40 euros per month
380,039.44 euros a day
15,834.98 euros per hour
263.92 euros per minute
4.40 euros per second.
The sums relate to the gross salary, and FC Barcelona, which is in debt with more than one billion euros, is said to have induced its players to waive their wages significantly. But suppose someone only gets ten cents a second instead of 4.40 euros, then that’s still 259,200 euros a year. It doesn’t have to be a bad person to be jealous of something “the brutal contract of Leo Messi” look how “El Mundo” describes the treaty.
Club announces legal action
FC Barcelona spoke up a few hours after the “brutal contract” was published. He was very angry that the numbers were published and announced legal action. The club did not complain about the numbers themselves.
After the win against Bilbao, coach Ronald Koeman spoke up and explained what his star actually deserves, namely respect: “He did so much for Spanish football.”
With the release, Messi should only be harmed, and if anyone “from the club” pierced the contract to the newspaper, then that was it “very bad”. It is also wrong to link Messi’s (financial) earnings to the club’s economic worries.
Treuebonus
The legal threat left behind “The world” little impression. On Monday, the newspaper followed up and reported that on July 15, Messi sold EUR 38,964,977.50 as “Treuebonus” get.
However, it is questionable whether Lionel Messi will still be loyal to the club on that day. The contract is only valid until June 30, 2021, and there was a public dispute between the world star from Argentina and his club last season.
Should the unveiling of “The world” have been made possible out of the club, an exit should be even more likely. Paris Saint Germain and Manchester City should be ready to pay a few euros per second for Messi.
with dpa and sid
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Stand: 01.02.2021, 12:22
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