Barcelona will ask three captains to reduce their salary even further – report

The sum of the amount the likes of Jordi Alba, Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets are pocketing is close to €100 million and it is one of the reasons why Barcelona are finding it hard to accommodate a big-money signing such as Erling Haaland in the summer.

As reported by Spanish news outlet SPORT, the Barça management is doing everything in its power to reduce the wage bill for the upcoming 2022-23 football season.

For that, they have already entered negotiations with CVC over a reported €300 million deal for the television rights. 

On the other hand, another deal worth €350 million is in the pipeline which involves a sale of 49% of Barça Estudios.

The aforementioned source, however, says this capital would not be enough despite the fact that all of this €650 million will be accounted as an income on the balance sheet.

So for now, the club hangs in balance. Hence a solution that recently came up is lowering the figures of three established first-team members. The €100 million that the trio is accountable for involves deferred money and various bonuses.

Now, it’s worth mentioning that the mentioned players have already modulated their salaries in the past. Upon signing their respective extension, the three agreed to lower the figures for the remaining years of their contracts.

And now, the club will ask them to undergo a similar process following the end of the season.

To say the solution is uncomplicated would be an understatement to make. But the team can, in fact, approach the situation with a similar viewpoint to that of Samuel Umtiti.

The French defender, who is expected to depart, renewed his contract in January, signing a four-and-a-half-year deal that allowed Barcelona to register Ferran Torres in the winter transfer window.

The operation allowed them to free up some space and one can expect the Barcelona management to go through a similar process with Alba, Pique and Busquets.