As AS has learned, Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of Barcelona, has not asked for a second drop in salary for the players. At least, with a view to the remainder of the season. In the conversation he had with them last weekend, and in the talks he usually has with the captains, he has explained to them that, obviously, the economic situation is not easy. But the salaries will remain until the end of the season. However, the efforts of Óscar Grau, CEO of Barça, and his team, is to cut from anywhere less than the chips of its main asset, the players who are the artists of this game. Of course, the key so that Bartomeu does not have to ask this summer for a general drop in wages will be sales. It is the old football. Like when you had to sell to players to pay for stadiums. Like when stars have to be sold so that the rest of the comrades get paid.
The players of the first team of Barça have already decided to lose 70 percent of their chips while they were not training. To that percentage was added two percent that they reduced from their salaries voluntarily to complete the salary of ordinary club workers, who did go to ERTE like professionals from other sections. In the last few hours, however, the noise has grown over a request by Bartomeu to the players of the first team to reduce their salary again. Sources consulted by Ace, however, denied that circumstance. Barça players will keep their salaries until the end of the season. Then, in the summer, it will be necessary to check how the workforce ends up being configured, who leaves and enters and what is the economic scenario. It will be then when Bartomeu and Óscar Grau will have to request, or not, an effort from the squad.
