Barcelona reach agreement with players over wage cuts this season
- Barcelona are ready to cut the wages of their players this season in La Liga
- This is because of the revenue the side lost due to the disturbance of COVID-19
- Player have also agreed for their money to be reduced by some percentages
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Spanish giants Barcelona have confirmed that they have reach an agreement with all their players over wage cuts this season after the club found themselves in serious financial crisis.
Barcelona got into this situation due to the serious disturbance of deadly COVID-19 in which all football games were put on hold for three months in Spain and other parts of the world.
The club's chiefs and the players have been on discussion over wage cuts for months before the Catalans got the breakthrough on Friday night, November 27.
According to the report on Daily Mail, Barcelona are deferring £45m (€50m) of variable payments over a three-year period on top of that and it still falls short of the £170m figure they target.
Messi is the current highest earner at the club as he pockets around £500,000 per week (£26m per year) while Antoine Griezmann takes in around £249,000-a-week (£15.3m) and Philippe Coutinho £180,000-a-week (£9.4m).
Meanwhile, Barcelona are currently not doing well this season in the Spanish as they are currently occupying 13th position on the table with 11 points.
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Earlier, Legit.ng had reported how Spanish giants Barcelona posted stunning photo of their captain Lionel Messi and some of his teammates paying emotional tribute to Diego Maradona while in training.
The whole world are still mourning the demise of Diego Maradona considering the joy he brought to the game of football during his active playing days.
Diego Maradona was a superb striker during his days for clubs and country Argentina winning the 1986 World Cup.
The former Barcelona star was said to have suffered heart attack in his house before he passed on and has been buried in private ceremony in Argentina.
Messi played under Diego Maradona when the latter spent two years as the coach of the Argentina senior national team.
Maradona led Argentina to World Cup success in 1986, but Lionel Messi has been unable to claim the trophy with the national team despite scoring 71 times in 140 caps.
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