The president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, at the farewell to Luis Suárez.MIGUEL RUIZ / EFE
FC Barcelona has notified by letter to its workers, including professional athletes, the need for a salary reduction after the economic vice president Jordi Moix presented the club's accounts on Tuesday that contemplate a hole of 97 million and a debt that amounts to the 820 million.
The official document notifies the start of a "collective procedure to modify the working conditions of its workforce, for economic reasons derived from the serious decrease in ordinary income that derives" from the Covid-19 pandemic.
For this purpose, a consultation period of 15 days is foreseen "from the moment the business party sets out the measures it intends to apply" and the creation of a negotiating table where workers and athletes will be represented, specifies the signed letter. by the Barça human resources department.
The statement came after the majority of footballers were concentrated with their respective teams and once a transfer market was closed that has not allowed Eric García or Memphis Depay to be signed, as coach Ronald Koeman intended.