The salary reductions and the multiple renewals of Barça

FC Barcelona is negotiating a salary reduction individually with all the first and second team players, as well as with the basketball team players. The club offers to lower their salary an average of 25 percent this season and that they recover that drop in the following campaigns. For this he signs a new contract.

The objective of this salary reduction is to save this year's accounting and prevent the club from falling into losses for which the current board of directors must respond. The Barça leaders intend to save around 100 million euros with the salary cuts they propose, which would join the more than 40 that have been removed with the departures of Suárez, Rakitic and Vidal.

A player who receives emoluments of 8 million euros per season and has signed a four-year contract, for example, is offered a reduction of 3 million euros this campaign and his record stays at 5 million euros, those 3 millions discount is distributed in the remaining contract seasons adding it to the base of 8 million or the years are extended in such a way that they always recover what they stop receiving in this 20-21 campaign.

The announcement by the club's official media of four renewals at the end of the Champions League match against Ferencvaros was striking. The new contracts of Piqué, Ter Stegen, Lenglet and De Jong could be found within an agreement closed by the club individually with each player so that the salary is reduced this season.

The club had convened a collective bargaining table with the squad and the players did not show up to negotiate, while it was reported in various media that Griezmann, Busquets, Coutinho, Sergi Roberto and Araujo were individually negotiating the salary reduction. Perhaps in the next few hours new renovations can be announced in one go.

Josep María Bartomeu, president of FC Barcelona, ​​wants individual negotiations to be speeded up to achieve the salary reduction of a majority of first and second team players, as well as those of Barça basketball, before he succeeds, if he finally does. does, the motion of censure.