Lionel Messi's contract with PSG is a well-kept secret.
But the indiscretions filter little by little.
On Wednesday, leparisien.fr revealed the amount of the star's net annual salary: € 41m.
Thursday, via a press release, the club explained that part of the bonuses linked to the contract would be paid in cryptocurrency.
Along with this information, the club and Lionel Messi's advisers let us know that no signing bonus was included in the deal.
It's astonishing for a free player of such stature to engage where he wants.
Because if the tendency to go to the end of his contract is accentuated, it is because it allows players to win a jackpot even before having played a single match with their new club.
This summer, PSG recruited five free players: Ramos, Wijnaldum, Donnarumma and Messi.
According to many experts, these stars are there because in this period of pandemic, PSG is one of the few clubs capable of offering them a top-level sporting project as well as financial conditions that meet their expectations.
If Messi does not have a signing bonus, there is no doubt that his two-year contract (plus an optional one) comes with various very lucrative bonuses and that he has given up very little on his image rights.
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Regarding Messi, the leaders of PSG assure that it is an excellent financial affair.
This is what Nasser Al-Khelaïfi explains in the columns of L'Équipe.
“We made four free transfers.
The value of these players, minimum, is 400 to 500 million €.
I don't know if you know, but in January, a club offered Leo € 600m for a four-year contract.
I'm not going to tell you how much we offer him but can you imagine how much we saved?
People talk about financial fair play but the club was worth 2.5 billion euros.
Today we are at a minimum of 3 billion.
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