The Spanish giants will have to cut £171m from their wage bill if Lionel Messi agree to sign a new contract with the Catalonia .
The Argentina International attempted to force an exit past season, but president Joan Laporta is more and more assured that new clause can be agreed before next campaign.
However, RAC1 reported that Messi renewing his contract would pressure Barcelona to free up £171m in wages, which could result to the Spanish giants offload several fringe players.
Philippe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti, Miralem Pjanic and Junior Firpo are among those confront doubtful futures in Catalonia, while the two French international Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele have also been strongly linked with exits in past weeks.
six-time Ballon d'Or winner ended the 2020-21 campaign netted 38 times and registered 14 assists from 47 outings
New Lionel Messi deal at Barcelona just a matter of time .
Kindly share this article and press the follow button for more transfer news updates.
Content created and supplied by: Marshsyl (via Opera
News )
Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform
See More
COMMENTS