Messi is owed €52m in salary by Barcelona, according to Diario SPORT
According to Diario SPORT, Barcelona still owe Messi €52m in unpaid wages, which will be paid over two years.
Messi is owed €52m by the club after former President Jose Manuel Bartomeu negotiated a salary extension with the team during the outbreak. The salary, which does not include loyalty awards, is expected to be paid in 2021 and 2022.
Barcelona still owes Messi €39m in unpaid loyalty awards.
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OFFICIAL: Van Dijk signs a new contract with Liverpool until 2025
The centre-back committed his future to the Reds by putting pen to paper at Anfield on Friday morning, ensuring his three-and-a-half-year association with the club will be prolonged well into the coming years.
Asked how it felt to have inked the fresh terms, Van Dijk told Liverpoolfc.com: “Amazing. It is something to be very proud of, that I am very proud of, that my wife and my kids are very proud of and obviously my agency.
“All the hard work we’ve put in so far continues and I am looking forward to what the future brings together with Liverpool. I’m delighted, very happy and proud.”
Van Dijk joined Liverpool from Southampton in January 2018 and quickly established himself as a mainstay in the centre of Jürgen Klopp’s defence.
The Netherlands captain has made 130 appearances for the club, scoring 13 goals, and collected winner’s medals in the Premier League, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
Individually, he was voted the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, UEFA Men’s Player of the Year and UEFA Defender of the Season for 2018-19, while he finished second in the 2019 Ballon d’Or and The Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2019.
“Since day one when I joined the club, I felt so much appreciation from the fans and from my teammates and the staff, that I could be a very important member of this football club,” Van Dijk continued.
“It has been going well; unfortunately last season for me personally has been a season to forget, to learn from and take with me, but I have enjoyed my time here and will keep enjoying it in the next couple of years altogether with all of you.”
Van Dijk is currently working his way back to full fitness after knee surgery last October curtailed his 2020-21 season prematurely.
The 30-year-old heads into the new campaign – which begins on Saturday for the Reds at Norwich City – with a full pre-season under his belt and three friendly runouts.
Van Dijk said: “I feel good. Obviously [they were] friendlies, you get your match fitness up, get into repetitions of doing things again and again.
“I feel like I am ready for the weekend, so we’ll see what the manager decides. It is going to be a totally different atmosphere and mindset for me personally as well. It is something we fight for, for the points, and hopefully we can get a positive result out of it.”
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Paris Saint-Germain’s transfer window of 2021 has been a collection of exceptionally gifted free transfers, yet in 2022 that could continue yet further with a number of other high-profile names seeing their contracts expire.
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Sergio Ramos, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Georginio Wijnaldum and Lionel Messi have all arrived with paying a transfer fee, and eyes have already turned to possible deals for next term.
Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ansu Fati are the players of the highest reputation with contracts expiring, although there is the small matter of Kylian Mbappe also being on that list.
Arsene Wenger predicted years ago that the market had become so inflated that players would start leaving for free transfers, although few would have predicted that the team which helped inflate the market the most would then benefit directly from their own actions.
Pogba has yet to sign a new deal with Manchester United and he is incredibly popular in France, which makes him a prime candidate to sign for the Parisian club, especially as hopes of a transfer in 2021 have ended with Messi’s arrival.
There is also the very real possibility that we see Ronaldo and Messi play together in one team, especially with it unlikely Juventus will be able to afford handing the Portuguese icon a new deal.
Putting the duo together would see eleven combined Ballon d’Or trophies in one starting XI, something that has never before come close to being a possibility.
Whilst PSG will be shopping at the top end of the Bosman market, there are a number of other players who are set to be available next summer.
Leon Goretzka is a talent that is set to leave Bayern Munich with Real Madrid and Manchester United linked, whilst Paulo Dybala, Franck Kessie, Lorenzo Insigne, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Marcel Sabitzer all due to be free transfers in 2022.
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