BARCELONA – Barcelona will have to pay Lionel Messi on July 15, two weeks after the end of the current season, an extra cousin of 38 million 964,000 977 euros as a loyalty prize for having been at the club until 1 of February 2020 and is the second part of a first payment that for the same concept already received on March 31 last year, in full alarm and with football and all activities suspended by confinement.
The Argentine star, who ends his contract on June 30 and has already revealed that he will not decide his future until then, could thus receive a final payment from Barça even not belonging to the club if he ends up leaving.
The information, published this Monday by the newspaper El Mundo, is a continuation of the offer on Sunday which revealed all the salary concepts of the last contract signed by the Argentine player in November 2017 and which motivated his advisers to study to sue – oppose publication to disclose a confidential document.
The payment of these almost 39 million euros, which will have to face the new president who emerged from the polls on March 7, is in addition to the 266 million that the club must pay to banks at the end of the season and at a particularly critical time, taking into account the economic report that was known last week and which figures its total debt at 1,173,000 euros, of which 730 are short-term.
Barcelona, unlike the day before, did not comment on the newspaper’s information, which emerged from the original leak, while Messi’s entourage, consulted by ESPN Esports, did not want to comment. of the published.
When in August the Argentine footballer sent the club the bureaufax for which he requested his immediate departure, he stated in the same that he renounced any charge he should have received this season, although he did not leave. to be able to confirm if this second part of the payment of fidelity was included in this resignation … That in fact, once confirmed its permanence in the Barcelona was confirmed.