Messi

[swaledale]

I've seen several reports here in NL that he was prepared to acceot a 70% drop in wages. He'd still have been on 300K a week. Taken along with the wages of the other players, even that "sacrifice" was insufficient to satisfy La Liga FFP rules.

Certainly its true he accepted a 50% wage cut in a new deal that was offered, but theres quite a lot that doesn't make sense about this, however Barca are heavily in debt!

[MadAmster]

Certainly its true he accepted a 50% wage cut in a new deal that was offered, but theres quite a lot that doesn't make sense about this, however Barca are heavily in debt!

€1.2Bn of debt.