Everything is a matter of accommodating the numbers, which in the end disguise the first years of a possible last agreement between Messi and the club.
After being elected president of the FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta He has faced things that he would not have expected, which are many debts and institutional commitments that make the Catalan team have a greater risk of decline, more if Messi were not renewed.
But renew someone like Messi it costs, and he himself has asserted himself for what it means in world football, that is why they are trying to reach an agreement where both parties can benefit. As he Barcelona like Lionel they could make history of closing the deal, because they are each a brand, and if Lio closes his clique as a footballer at the Camp Nou, they would win a lot together.
If the relationship Messi-Barcelona not to continue, the two lost, so it happened at the time with Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo, now we will have to see what happens with the departure of Ramos.
In case of Messi It is special, because it is talking about one of the best players in the history of football, but everything will depend on this final stretch, what he achieves and what he achieves. At the moment he is in the Top-3 of the best in history, and that makes the negotiation more complicated.
Having a salary cap on The Spanish league It has caused Laporta to make movements in the sale of players to reduce spending, as an example is the issue of Griezmann and the possibility of a trick with Atlético de Madrid by Saúl, an interesting player, but the Catalans are still not convinced with him agreement.
They still have the experience with Luis Suarez, to whom they let the mattress growers go practically free; With their game and their goals they had the opportunity to be champions in Spain, won’t they want to give him another great player like Griezmann for another possible title?
Due to the pandemic there are few purchases and few sales, some teams like PSG have a box with enough savings to invest, but the most conservative are waiting for the moment to make the leap, like Real Madrid, that with everything that happened with the audios of Florentino, the attention and the atmosphere have been diverted from what the merengue club means.
This is a busy summer, there will be few investments and possibly a lot of exchanges, but the one who gets the attention is the Barcelona, because Laporta likes to be the protagonist and wants to find the best way to lower debts and have the players Koeman asks for.
It is practically a fact the agreement with Messi, and he is helping to accept a 50% decrease in his salary at the beginning, which we would be talking about would earn an approximate amount of 20 million euros. But he will continue to raise the amounts according to the salary limit that LaLiga allows, so that in the end, Lionel can collect the grand total during the five years of the signed contract that he would have initially wanted with him. BarcelonaEverything is a matter of arranging the numbers so that in the end the first years of a possible last agreement with the club are disguised.