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Carles Tuskets, Barcelona’s interim president, believes the club would have been in better shape had it parted ways with Lionel Messi last summer. The Argentine tried to leave the Camp Nou with a free signing, but the Blaugrana lawyers showed that this could not happen and that whoever wanted to have the superstar had to pay the termination clause written in his contract.
“Financially, he would have sold Messi last summer,” Tuskets said in an interview with RAC 1. “It would be good in terms of what they would take for him and save accordingly.”
Tuskets described the situation at the Camp Nou as very difficult and said that at this point transfers such as Neymar’s possible return to the club are impossible.
“He can only come for free, which is unlikely to happen. Unless the next president performs a miracle or a lot of players are sold, then all of their money goes to Neymar,” the interim chief said.
The club introduced a pay cut after reaching an agreement with the team, but the new president and board of directors can return the old salaries.
“The new president can restore the old conditions,” he explained. “We are in a situation where we cannot pay even January wages. We are an advisory body with no decision-making power. I was against increasing debt and wages. But no one could have predicted the emergence of COVID-19 “.
“It is worrying that we do not have money for January salaries, but we hope to get back on our feet. Players will not receive their monthly salaries on time. It will be postponed in the same way as other payments, such as trophy bonuses.”
When asked who he would support for a new president, Tuskets decided to shy away from the subject.
“I don’t know who I will vote for because I still don’t know who will run,” he said.
The interim coach is concerned about the state of the Camp Nou and the club’s facilities. The situation with the Johan Cruyff Stadium near La Masia is particularly difficult.
“It is literally collapsing and needs to be fixed,” he said. “Work on it needs to start. Pieces are falling from the roofs. We cannot afford to hit people on the head on Election Day.”
