- At Barça they assure that this week they will start negotiations with Alba, Piqué and Busquets
Barça urgently needs to redirect its treasury tensions and one of the most viable formulas it manages is to practice a new salary reduction for the squad.
All eyes are on the captains, who are the ones with the highest chips. Both the president, Joan Laport , and the economic vice-president, Eduard Romeu , have publicly recognized that in order to square the financial ‘fair play’ that LaLiga demands of them, it is necessary to re-negotiate with these players.
Jordi Alba and Busquets: They have been predisposed to help but have regretted from the concentration of the Spanish team that they have found out about the action through the press and that no one from the club has told them anything. As a result of it, the club culé will be quoting them this next week.
Interview with the economic vice-president of Barça
The club will negotiate these days with the agents of Alba, Busquets and Piqué, as MD has learned from Barça sources. Sergi Roberto, who shares representation with the pivot, is exempt because in the renewal agreement for this next campaign the salary had already been reduced by 60%. Contacts will not be easy. The empathy with the club and its economic reality is total but not at any price.
All of them already negotiated a first reduction during the coronavirus pandemic crisis and last summer they lowered their salary again and deferred their contract again so that Barça could sign up some reinforcements. In any case, Umtiti ‘s step forward was even more decisive. They understand, all of them, that they have made a more than remarkable sacrifice.
The negotiations will not be collective again but individual because each contract is different. While the center-back and full-back end their relationship in 2024, the midfielder will do so next season. While the first two have deferred part of their record being linked to Barça , the other will continue to be paid when he has already signed for another club, as is his intention. Busquets does not want to continue beyond the year he has left.
Contacts will also be established with some other player, for example Frenkie de Jong if he continues as a Barça player, but the highest chips, due to inherited, are those of those who have been in the squad the longest. Both Alba and Busquets have already said that they will not object if what the club proposes to them is reasonable.
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