BARCELONA – Barcelona will have to pay Lionel Messi on July 15, two weeks after the end of the current season, an extra bonus of 38 million 964 thousand 977 euros as a loyalty prize for staying with the club until February 1, 2020 and it is the second part of a first payment he received for the same concept on March 31 of last year, in full panic and with football and all activities suspended due to incarceration.
The Argentinian star, who ends his contract on June 30 and has already revealed that he will only then decide his future, could thus receive a final payment from Barça, even if he does not belong to the club, should he eventually leave.
The information, published this Monday by the El Mundo newspaper, is the continuation of what was offered on Sunday, revealing all the salary concepts of the last contract the Argentinian player signed in November 2017 and motivating his advisers to file a complaint. to submit. against publication for disclosure of a confidential document.
The payment of this nearly $ 39 million, which the new president who emerged from the polls on March 7, will be added to the $ 266 million that the club will pay to the banks at the end of the season and at some point. must pay. criticism, taking into account the economic report released last week, which estimates the total debt at 1,173 million euros, 730 of which are short-term.
Barcelona, unlike the day before, did not comment on the newspaper’s information that emerged from the original leak, while Messi’s environs, consulted by ESPN Deportes, declined to comment on what was published.
In August, when the Argentinian footballer sent the club the burofax for which he had requested his immediate departure, he stated in it that he would waive any charge he had to receive this season, although it could not be confirmed whether that second part of the payment was loyalty included in that dismissal … that in fact, once his stay in Barcelona was confirmed, it was confirmed.