BARCELONA :Barcelona was forced to let Argentina superstar Lionel Messi leave the club because his wage demands would have jeopardised the club's future, President Joan Laporta said on Friday.
Laporta said salaries should ideally account for 65per cent-70per cent of the club's income,"so there's still a lot of work to be done." Messi's last contract, signed in 2017, was the most lucrative in world sport according to a January report in newspaper El Mundo. Forbes has listed him as the athlete with the world's second-highest earnings in 2021, at US$130 million.
But he said that they were unable to get either deal done because of La Liga's Financial Fair Play rules, and that he was not willing to agree to the league's proposed private equity investment from CVC solely in order to secure Messi's future.
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