FC Barcelona: Sergio Busquets: without salary reduction, for the moment
Lhe Sports Directorate of Barcelona has the objective of reduce the wage bill of the staff and has already set to work to achieve it. Mateu Alemany has already started the contact round in order to see the availability of the players. One of them is Sergio Busquets and for this he met with the representative of the footballer Jos Mara Orobitg.
Busquets: “I would like the club to tell me things and not find out from the press”
At the moment, the footballer does not lower his salary and it stayed as it is. This is the conclusion of the first meeting that the two parties held last Sunday. The club exposed the situation in which it finds itself at the moment and the need to lower the wage bill in order to sign players.
Busquets had complained that the club had not communicated anything to him while there was a lot of information in the press about the salary reduction. “He heard that many things are being said and when I return from vacation I don’t know what they will tell me. I would like Amy to tell me not to find out elsewhere, but I am always willing to help. They have not proposed anything to us, they have not told us anything more than what is heard by you. It is not the best decision to do it through the press, it is always better direct and face to face”, he said during the concentration of the Spanish team.
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Sergio Busquets has one more year on his contract and, like the rest of the players, he already had a pay cut due to the pandemic and the drop in the club’s income. The Sports Directorate intends that the captain, Piqué and Jordi Alba lower their salary since their chips are the highest in the squad.
In the case of Pique, the footballer will lower his salary as he told Xavi Hernndez in the meeting he said he had with him a few days ago and in which the coach I explained to him that the role of the soccer player had changed and what you want from him for the next exercise.