BARCELONA – Josep Maria Bartomeu rejected any responsibility after being one of the names identified as a possible person responsible for the leak of Messi’s contract published by the newspaper El Mundo in its Sunday edition and in communication with TV3, he denied have nothing to do with the matter.
The former president of Barcelona, who in November 2017 signed the renewal contract with the Argentine star, announced in a statement sent to the Catalan channel his willingness to go to the bottom of the matter .
“This is a very serious issue because it is totally illegal to filter any professional contract in the media. To accuse is very easy, but we are not kidding and all this will end up in the courts,” he said.
“Messi deserves everything he earns, both for professional and commercial reasons and without the effects of the pandemic Barça would be fully able to pay these figures,” said Bartomeu, leaving clear his conviction that the figures in the contract of the captain are in agreement with their importance in the club.
Resigned last October, after all the controversy surrounding the motion of censure, the former president returned to the forefront, being singled out as one of the people who could have been the cause of the leak of Messi’s contract and his name are speculated to be one that will be investigated at the request of the Argentine player’s lawyers.
Bartomeu and Òscar Grau, general manager of Barça, are aware of the document, as is the current president Carles Tusquets, all of whom are suspicious, in Messi’s eyes, of having been able to commit the crime of revealing a professional secret.