Mercato – Barcelona: Salaries, Messi… Pique lets go on the eventful summer of Barça! – The 10 Sport

Posted on September 7, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. by Th.B.

While FC Barcelona is going through an unprecedented crisis, posting a debt of € 1.3bn as Joan Laporta indicated during the financial audit report in August, Gerard Pique showed the way by lowering his salary. The Barça defender spoke about this and the rest of his adventure at the club.

A few hours before the premiere of FC Barcelona in La Liga against the Real Sociedad in mid-august, the club culé could not line up its summer recruits due to its inability to include them in the payroll set up by the president Javier Tebas without exceeding the established ceiling. Thereby, Gerard Pique made the decision to drastically lower his salary so that the FC Barcelona can meet La Liga criteria. Memphis Depay and Eric Garcia were the first to benefit from this sacrifice by Pique, which was hailed by Joan Laporta. “This was made possible thanks to the agreement reached with Gerard Piqué for the second Barcelona captain to lower his salary considerably”. Here is the message that the president of the FC Barcelona passed last August 14th. Having done a good part of his classes at La Masia before going to harden up Manchester United where he signed his first professional contract, Gerard Pique returned to Barcelona on his 21st birthday and never left the Barça for whom he is ready for anything.

“The day I see that I cannot give the team what I have given, I leave”

” If I leave ? If people knew five percent of my first year at Barça, they would tell me everything ”. told Gerard Pique To La Sotana before dwelling on his possible retirement which he does not see particularly close, he who takes, however, year after year. “The first year I made my debut, when the sun was shining brighter than anything, if I had been told that at 34 I would play for Barça, I would not have given a single penny. I knew how to handle the times when my body needed such and such a thing. Family stability is also essential. I go from season to season. I always see it as the last one, if there is another one then that’s perfect. The day I see that I cannot give the team what I have given, I leave ”. And Gerard Pique really gave everything to FC Barcelona since he agreed to a huge pay cut in order to allow the Barça to register the licenses of Memphis Depay and D’Eric Garcia notably.

His salary reduction, the consequence of the Messi soap opera …

Lately, Gerard Pique has been regularly invited to comment on the financial sacrifice he has agreed to make in order to allow the FC Barcelona to record his summer hits on the transfer market. For La Sotana, Pique this time explained the changes made to his contract at FC Barcelona. “I gave up part of my salary. My contract ended this year but if I played X number of matches, my contract was renewed under the same conditions as this year. Now the fixed and the variable have changed ”. Afterwards, Gerard Pique wished to inform the general public that the decision to reduce the salaries of executives of the workforce of Ronald Koeman had been taken for a while, but the president Joan Laporta wanted to testify to the turn of the soap opera Lionel Messi before announcing it to the general public. “Laporta called us to inform us. Although we have lowered our salaries, the captains have arrived to register the signatures. The club were waiting to see what was happening with Leo before announcing it because the agreement was in place ”. During an interview with Tv3, Laporta let it be known that the FC Barcelona was going to ” better “ than in August when he pointed out how worrying the financial situation was. Pique can therefore claim to have played a central role in this development.