{"id":25414,"date":"2021-07-14T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=25414"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:54:16","slug":"lionel-messi-takes-a-50-percent-pay-cut-to-extend-stay-at-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=25414","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi takes a 50 percent pay cut to extend stay at Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The six-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner was officially a free agent as of July 1 after he failed to agree terms over a renewal before his previous Barcelona contract expired on June 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in July, Messi led Argentina&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/32506\/12353387\/argentina-1-0-brazil-lionel-messis-wait-for-a-major-international-trophy-is-over\">to the Copa America title<\/a>&nbsp;thanks to a 1-0 win in the final against hosts Brazil, bringing an end to his wait for a first major international trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old has now agreed to stay on at his boyhood club for another five years, meaning he will be 39 by the time his new deal runs out \u2013 when he will have totalled 26 years on the club\u2019s books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi sparked an acrimonious transfer row in August last year, when he officially informed the club his wish to activate a clause in his contract which would have seen him leave for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, La Liga president Javier Tebas and Josep Maria Bartomeu \u2013 Barcelona president at the time \u2013 blocked the move, indicating that the clause was only active until June 10 and any suitor would have to pay his \u20ac700m release clause in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe president always told me that I could decide to stay or go at the end of the season and they\u2019re now clinging to the fact that I hadn\u2019t said anything by June 10, when it turns out that on June 10 the La Liga season was still ongoing and we were in the midst of this virus and this illness that altered the whole fixture calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s the reason why I\u2019m staying on at the club. I\u2019m now staying because the president told me that the only way I could leave was by paying the \u20ac700m release clause, which is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartomeu went on to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11827\/12116740\/josep-maria-bartomeu-threw-in-the-towel-tension-still-brewing-at-real-madrid-the-view-from-spain\">resign in October<\/a>, while Messi wanted to listen to the plans of his successor Joan Laporta before deciding his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have been the front-running clubs interested in signing him. Messi also wants to one day play in MLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: skysports<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lionel Messi has reached a verbal agreement on a five-year contract extension at Barcelona, with his salary to be reduced by 50 per cent under terms of the new deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner was officially a free agent as of July 1 after he failed to agree terms over a renewal before his previous Barcelona contract expired on June 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in July, Messi led Argentina&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/32506\/12353387\/argentina-1-0-brazil-lionel-messis-wait-for-a-major-international-trophy-is-over\">to the Copa America title<\/a>&nbsp;thanks to a 1-0 win in the final against hosts Brazil, bringing an end to his wait for a first major international trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old has now agreed to stay on at his boyhood club for another five years, meaning he will be 39 by the time his new deal runs out \u2013 when he will have totalled 26 years on the club\u2019s books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi sparked an acrimonious transfer row in August last year, when he officially informed the club his wish to activate a clause in his contract which would have seen him leave for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, La Liga president Javier Tebas and Josep Maria Bartomeu \u2013 Barcelona president at the time \u2013 blocked the move, indicating that the clause was only active until June 10 and any suitor would have to pay his \u20ac700m release clause in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe president always told me that I could decide to stay or go at the end of the season and they\u2019re now clinging to the fact that I hadn\u2019t said anything by June 10, when it turns out that on June 10 the La Liga season was still ongoing and we were in the midst of this virus and this illness that altered the whole fixture calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s the reason why I\u2019m staying on at the club. I\u2019m now staying because the president told me that the only way I could leave was by paying the \u20ac700m release clause, which is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartomeu went on to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11827\/12116740\/josep-maria-bartomeu-threw-in-the-towel-tension-still-brewing-at-real-madrid-the-view-from-spain\">resign in October<\/a>, while Messi wanted to listen to the plans of his successor Joan Laporta before deciding his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have been the front-running clubs interested in signing him. Messi also wants to one day play in MLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: skysports<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Send your news stories to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dannyboy744@gmail.com\">dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via WhatsApp on +233 266777777<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner was officially a free agent as of July 1 after he failed to agree terms over a renewal before his previous Barcelona contract expired on June 30. 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