Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho & Co .: your strangest contract requests

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the essentials in short

• When football stars negotiate contracts, things sometimes get weird.
• Lionel Messi is relatively reasonable with his desire for a private jet.
• But sometimes the star kickers get robbed.

Meanwhile, Lionel Messi is in his second year at Paris Saint-Germain and appears to be slowly arriving in France. In the summer of 2021, the Argentine moved from his youth club, Barcelona, ​​to Paris: on a free transfer, his contract had expired.

Should Lionel Messi return to Barça?

The Catalans had actually accepted all the conditions of the Argentine, even the unusual ones: “El Mundo” reports it, citing the emails between Messi’s adviser Jorge Mendes and the then Barça board of directors.

Lionel Messi has also asked too much for Barça

For example, he had asked for a private jet to take him to Argentina and return at any time. He also requested VIP boxes for his family and those of his former teammate Luis Suárez. In addition, Lionel Messi has asked for a purchase bonus of 10 million.

Everything was acceptable to the then financially troubled Catalans. Only the cancellation of his 700 million release clause did not want to be accepted by FC Barcelona. The rest is known: no agreement was reached, Lionel Messi ended up in Paris.

The Argentine’s demands are relatively docile compared to Ronaldinho’s in the fall of his career. The cult Brazilian footballer wanted two contractually guaranteed party nights a week at the Flamengo. There was also a house with a swimming pool.

And when it came to Queretaro in Mexico, the Brazilian also had clear ideas about what the club should buy him: Ronaldinho wanted a house with butlers, a beach soccer pitch and a pitch for 7v7 matches.

Lego house, solarium, cooking lessons

However, this is overcome by Giuseppe Reina, who once asked Arminia Bielefeld for a new house per contract year. He is just stupid: he didn’t specify in the contract how big the house was to be and he got a Lego house every year.

Paul Gascoigne once negotiated better: the England legend was lured by the Spurs with a cot for his sister. In addition there was a house for the parents of the cult footballer.

It gets weird with Rolf-Christel Guie-Mien, who moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1999. He requested cooking lessons – for his wife! This should help him feel at home in Germany. The club agreed and the Congolese actually stayed for three years.