In 2021 Lionel Messi surprised the world of football by leaving Barcelona, where he had arrived in 2000, for PSG. The transfer took place a at no costafter the Argentine star saw the end of his contract with the Catalans.
A situation that those responsible blaugrana tried to avoid a year earlier. This Wednesday, the The world unveiled the alleged negotiations between Messi and Barcelona to extend the bond and the extravagant requests of the Argentine international.
To renew Messi he will have asked for a private box at the Camp Nou for his family and for that of Luis Suárez (in the meantime he was at Atlético Madrid); a private flight to Argentina during the Christmas period; a signing bonus of € 10 million; the reimbursement of the salary cut during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a three percent interest; and, finally, a symbolic 10 thousand euro release clause to leave the club when he realized he was now.
The Spanish newspaper explains that Josep María Bartomeu, then president of Barcelona, accepted all the conditions, with the exception of the new release clause (the one stipulated in the contract was 700 million euros) and attempted to renegotiate the form of payment of the bonuses. to the signature. Obstacles that collapsed the negotiation and led to the departure of Messi the following year.
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