Barcelona duo have rejected club’s proposal for a salary reduction

The Barcelona management is working full time to come up with plans to reduce their salary mass, amid La Liga’s instruction to do away with at least €200 million from the cost of the workforce.

As part of their plans to cut costs, Barça have already offered Sergio Busquets a renewal offer that includes a hefty salary cut. The club are hoping that the veteran midfielder will be ready to continue for at least another year, despite being offered a paltry €7 million per season.

In another such effort, the Barcelona board had come up with a proposal to cut the salary of their new players in Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen, reports Diario SPORT.

It was a delicate approach, given that the two players had only joined the club in the summer of 2022. From a moral perspective, it was always going to be tricky for the club to convince the two players to take up a salary cut, even though they were aware of Barça’s economic situation. This applied to other players as well, who joined the club in 2022.

And quite surprisingly, Barcelona met rejection in their efforts to cut the salary of Christensen and Kessie. The two players were not willing to have their salaries cut within a year after they joined the club.

Barcelona agreed with their decision, knowing they made great commitments to join the club in the first place, rejecting better offers from other teams. Not to mention, both were free agents when they joined the club and were willing to settle for the club’s strict wage structure.

Honouring the agreement that was reached in the summer, Barcelona respectfully chose to move on and seek other alternatives, in their bid to reduce the cost of the workforce, which is going to be crucial as Barça look to secure the return of Lionel Messi this coming summer.