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Leo Messi
will also undertake legal actions against the newspaper ‘El Mundo‘, which this Sunday exclusively published the contract that the Argentine has signed with Barcelona and that would bring him some 555 million euros in the last four years.
As EFE learned from sources close to the player’s environment, Messi’s lawyers are working “on a lawsuit against the World for the publication of the contract“and they are studying” to implicate those from within the club who had access to said contract and could have leaked it. “
This would mean point out both the members of the previous board of directors, chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu, cas the chairman of the Management Board, Carles Tusquets, or the CEO of the Entity, Óscar Grau.
Is demand would be added to the one announced by FC Barcelona this Sunday. The club denies “categorically” that it has leaked the contract of Leo Messi and himregrets that the contract “has been publicly disclosed”, since it is “an exclusively private document” and is governed by the principle of “confidentiality between the parties
– Barça denies “any responsibility”
Just for the fact have signed a new contract with Barça, Messi automatically received a premium of 97,941,250 euros (almost 119 million dollars), in two payments, in December 2017 and in the same month of 2018.
At the same time its termination clause went from 250 to 700 million euros (almost 850 million dollars). In the event that he conquered the Champions League, Messi would pocket a bonus of 3,548,644 euros (about $ 4.3 million), something that has not yet happened with the current contract in force.
In case of conquer the league (what happened twice since November 2017, in 2018 and 2019), the bonus is 2,365,766 euros ($ 2,871,140). And if he lifts the Copa del Rey (which he achieved once since the contract was signed in 2018), the bonus is 591,442 euros (717,786 dollars). The Messi’s contract with Barça remained a secret until this Sunday.
According to the revelations of El Mundo, the document consists of 30 pages. Some revelations that have caused a sensation in Catalonia, in a heavily indebted club without a president (elections were postponed to March 7 due to the pandemic), and just five months after Messi’s contract expires, who since January 1 has a free hand to negotiate with the club of their choice.
“FC Barcelona categorically denies any rresponsibility in the publication of his professional contract and will take legal action against ‘El Mundo’ “, Barça announced in a statement released this Sunday, hours before the League match at the Camp Nou against Athletic Club.
Messi showed his intention to leave Barça in the summer (European) of 2020, after the humiliation received in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Bayern Munich (8-2). But the former president of the culé club Josep Maria Bartomeu, later resigned, did not open the exit door.
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