(Transfer from sports arena+)Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Liang Hongye
Yesterday has reached June 30, which is the last day of the work contract between Messi and Barcelona, but until this day, Barcelona still has not completed the renewal of the contract with Messi. In theory, starting from July 1 today, Messi has been unemployed. , Or become a free agent altogether.
After the early morning of June 30, it was already a very sensitive time, because it meant that Messi was no longer a member of Barcelona. The local reporters were worried that Messi and Barcelona had not renewed their contracts. They checked the official website after the early hours of the morning. Fortunately, there is still information about Messi, but the official website does not have Messi filming the new season’s uniform on behalf of the club. In theory, now go to the Barcelona store, it is no longer possible to buy the Barcelona team uniform with the word Messi printed on it.
Why has Messi not renewed his contract with Barcelona so far? There is an explanation that Messi does not want to distract himself in the Copa America, but this is not the real reason.
Barcelona has not yet completed the contract extension with Messi not because Messi wants to go to any other team, nor because Barcelona chairman Laporta does not want him, but because of formalities. As early as two weeks ago, before Messi’s father flew back to Argentina, Barcelona and Messi had reached an agreement to renew the contract. Barcelona and Messi renewed the contract for two years, Messi’s salary was halved, and Barcelona would leave the team at Messi. Make up Messi’s salary within 6-10 years.
The two sides negotiated smoothly and reached an agreement. The news at the time was that Messi would announce the renewal on his 34th birthday on June 24, but then this news was denied by Barcelona and Messi. The two sides did not deny their intention to renew. It is that Messi’s contract renewal document is very complicated and requires both parties to treat it with caution.
There are currently two obstacles to Messi’s contract renewal. The first is that even if he agrees to a 50% pay cut, Barcelona still has to work harder if Messi’s contract renewal successfully passes the La Liga fiscal fairness policy, because La Liga lost 700 million last year. The Euro, half of which is the loss of the Barcelona family, so this year Barcelona’s financial policy needs to be tightened. According to La Liga President Tevas, Barcelona can only use it for every 10 million euro reduction in wages this season. That’s 2.5 million, or 1/4, to pay for new players or new contracts. In other words, after Messi’s previous contract of 130 million euros before tax was saved, only 1/4-32.5 million of it could be used to pay for Messi’s new contract. At present, Messi agreed to cut the salary by 50%. The new contract is a pre-tax annual salary of 65 million euros. If Barcelona wants to make up this money for Messi, they must continue to step up the salary reduction process.
But it’s not easy to get players to agree to a pay cut. To be precise, it’s very difficult. Barcelona mainly adopts methods such as selling players to make pay cuts, but even so, it’s still very difficult. Few clubs are willing to accept Barcelona’s The high wages paid to the players before the epidemic. Therefore, Barcelona is currently using the method of contract cancellation to reduce salaries. For example, Barcelona has just terminated the contract with Brazilian midfielder Mateu Fernández, and soon they are preparing to unilaterally terminate the contract with Umtiti. As for what Umtiti will do afterwards To ask for a salary with Barcelona, then wait to see you in court in the future. Barcelona has no time to sit down and talk slowly with the players who are not willing to cut their pay.
Therefore, the first reason that Barcelona has not renewed the contract with Messi is that Barcelona has not collected the salary for Messi to complete the contract renewal in line with La Liga regulations.
Secondly, Messi is afraid of the Spanish Ministry of Finance’s review of this contract. The complexity of the contract provided by Barcelona for Messi is that part of the annual salary will be paid to Messi gradually in the next 6-10 years, but the Spanish Ministry of Finance does not agree with this payment method, because Messi is unlikely to be in the future. He will live in Spain, so he will not be a Spanish taxpayer and pay taxes to the Spanish Ministry of Finance, but the income he receives from Barcelona in the future will actually come from the labor compensation he played for Barcelona when he lived in Spain. This is financial Circumstances not allowed by the Ministry.
Messi and his father have already been sentenced by Spanish courts for tax issues, but for paying taxes and the first offender’s imprisonment sentence (22 months) has not been executed. If they commit another offence, then Messi will have no other choice but to go to jail. Serving a sentence, so Messi’s lawyers and consultants have great doubts about how the current contract given by Barcelona will solve the inquiries of the Ministry of Finance. This has led to Messi’s agreement to renew the contract a long time ago, but it still remained after the legal issues were not clarified. Can’t sign for a long time.
The situation we have seen today that Messi and Barcelona cannot renew until the end of the contract may not have been imagined. This is due to the fact that Barcelona’s objective economic situation has led to the current situation that both sides have renewed the contract when both parties have the willingness to renew the contract. Unable to sign, maybe Messi should really consider other clubs.Return to Sohu to see more
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