Spain is buzzing about the Lionel Messi dossier opened by El Mundo, in which numerous secrets and business arrangements that the once world’s best footballer had with Barcelona were published. However, the newspaper announced that it will not stop only at Messi, but will open stories about all the “senators” of the club from the Nou Camp, players who are synonymous with Barca’s greatest successes in the past ten years, but who managed to cash in on their performances big time.❗Gerard Piqué specifically asked Bartomeu to earn more than Sergio Ramos during the negotiations to renew his contract in 2018.— @elmundoes pic.twitter.com/CNCD4XXwkk— Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) September 21, 2022 It was Gerard Pique’s turn. His file. Also very rich, substantial. And it certainly won’t please the defender who is still a member of the club, and whose name has been circulating in the tabloids for the past few days because of his life outside the field. As revealed by El Mundo, Gerard Pique signed a five-year contract in January 2018, which makes an honest man dizzy. The Barcelona stopper put his initials on his loyalty to the club, and in return he was guaranteed a fantastic salary of 142,000,000 euros for those five years. That is, 28.4 million euros per year!Details of Messi’s contracts and goodbye with Barca – from a scholarship to abnormal bonusesWhen Pique went to negotiate with the then president of Barcelona, Josep Bartomeu, he asked him for a contract that would make him the most expensive defensive player in the world. In translation, according to Mundo Deportivo, Pique was obsessed with getting paid more than Sergio Ramos, the captain of Real Madrid at the time, and ended up getting what he wanted. Moreover, Ramos was earning 12.5 million euros net at that moment, while Pique was left with 15 million euros per year after deduction of tax. He greatly surpassed his biggest rival. That contract of 15 million was split into several items, but all together, without any problems, brought Pique the global earnings he agreed with the club president.The giant is back on its feet: Barcelona’s profit this season will be 274,000,000 eurosWhen the corona virus pandemic broke out, the contracts of all football players around the world came under attack, mass reductions in wages were agreed, because the general collapse of world football threatened. That trend did not bypass Barcelona either. Everyone agreed to a reduction in wages, Lionel Messi even 70 percent to cut his salary. But the Catalan giant ran into heavy debts, so even that wasn’t enough for him. As El Mundo writes, several players, such as Pique, De Jong, Ter Stegen and Lengle have agreed to an additional contract reduction, as it was publicly shown, and in reality they signed a contract extension, which would compensate them in the coming years for everything was “taken away”.##NAJAVA_MECA_6660734##Thus, Pique collected 18 million euros gross for the 2020/21 season, 27.7 next season, 229.5 this year, and according to the contract, he would receive 40.8 million in the next season, his last year of his contract with Barcelona. However, when the new president Joan Laporta came, he managed to negotiate with the players the reduction of all these guaranteed sums, so a good part of it was reduced, and a part turned into bonuses if good results were achieved. And according to the newest reports, Gerard Pique will reportedly leave Barcelona next summer if he does not play in 35 per cent of matches this season. The Catalonians are playing from 50 to 55 games this season – meaning Pique can play no more than approximately 19 times if Barca want to see him leave next summer.
