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Lionel Messi arrived in Barcelona and his signing is imminent: the details of a long-awaited contract

2021-08-04T20:25:41.352Z


They hope to make their new bond official this Thursday and that the Argentine will be present on Sunday at the Joan Gamper Cup.


08/04/2021 17:11

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 08/04/2021 17:11

The expectation is counting down.

And what is announced as imminent several weeks ago is now about to materialize: Lionel Messi will sign a new contract to continue until 2026 at Barcelona and thus clear the ghosts that haunted the future of the Argentine star, who was about to hit slammed the door at the club of his entire life.

The most optimistic idea that comes from Spain indicates that the renewal will be made official this Thursday and will have its public signature on Sunday in the framework of the Joan Gamper Cup, a friendly contest with which the club traditionally presents its squad before starting each season.

The president of the culé, Joan Laporta, insisted that "they are doing everything possible to speed up the signing and that the important thing is that Messi wants to sign as soon as possible" the contract that expired on June 30 while the Argentine played the Copa América that enshrined him. with the Argentine National Team.

🔵🔴 Leo Messi and his family in Barcelona.

The Argentine will sign his last contract with Barça



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- Víctor Navarro (@victor_nahe) August 4, 2021

"There are few details left, so the intention of the club is to make it official between this Thursday and Sunday, before the Joan Gamper Cup," published the Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo in reference to the match against Juventus in which Messi could wear the colors of the Barsa.

All roads lead to the signature.

After enjoying the well-deserved holidays in Miami and Ibiza, Leo landed at El Prat airport on Wednesday night and gave a new indication of relief for the fans of the Blaugrana team.

Lionel Messi and Antonela Roccuzzo now enjoy the beaches of Ibiza.

Photo: Instagram

As agreed by the club's leaders with the footballer's father and representative, Jorge Messi,

the new link will be until 2026

and includes a strong salary cut that would be 50 percent.

The negotiations were not easy, especially since Barcelona faces a delicate economic and financial situation, part of the reasons that ejected Josep María Bartomeu from the presidential seat.

Therefore, beyond the good feeling between Laporta and Messi, the engineering to be able to comply with the legal terms of their hiring had to be supported by the treasury.

This scenario delayed the signing and re-installed a climate of doubt, beyond the fact that the tremor that had been experienced around Messi's future in the second half of 2020, post

burofax

, had already been left behind.

An institutional agreement ended up putting the matter on track.

LaLiga announced in the last hours an agreement by which

more than 3,000 million dollars will enter an investment fund in exchange for 10% of its business

, a source of oxygen necessary to face the problems caused by the pandemic.

CVC Capital Partners will pay 2,700 million euros (3,200 million dollars), in an operation that will allow "to provide LaLiga and the Clubs with resources with the aim of continuing the transformation towards a global digital entertainment company," according to a statement from the Spanish competition, chaired by Javier Tebas.

The assignment does not include television rights, LaLiga clarified, which in its last contract, from 2019 to 2022, for three seasons, awarded to the Telefónica company, contributed 3.4 billion euros.

In the distribution to the clubs, according to the EFE agency, Barcelona will receive a figure close to 250 million euros and will be able to invest 15% directly in its squad, that is,

around 40 million euros

.

Messi was released on June 30 and has just been champion of the Copa América with the National Team.

Once Barcelona resolves Messi's signature, it will have to see if the money from LaLiga and CVC is enough for more signings, after Laporta revealed this Monday that he needed more margin in the financial fair-play to have "more possibilities of incorporating" .

At the moment, he buckled four players in the summer market: Emerson Royal, Eric Garcia, Sergio Agüero and Memphis Depay.

It is worth clarifying that, beyond sports, clubs must invest 70% of the money they receive in infrastructure and the other 15% in refinancing their debt and alleviating the economic damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Memphis Depay already put on the Barcelona shirt in a friendly.

Photo: THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP.

The news of this agreement comes about four months after 12 European clubs, including Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid, distanced themselves from traditional competitions and announced the establishment of a European Super League on their own.

They wanted to give a boost to their income after the blow that caused the football stoppage and the lack of public in the last season and a half.

According to a May report from UEFA, the crisis created by the pandemic could mean up to 8 billion euros in losses to European clubs in two seasons.

Source: clarin

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