28/06/2025
✅ Barça has officially settled all deferred salary debts.
✅ At the end of 2020, following Bartomeu's resignation, the interim board reached an agreement with the first-team players to defer part of their salaries. The total deferred amount, which reached €121.7 million, was scheduled to be paid in eight installments through to June 30, 2025.
📌 Details of the final payment:
▪️ Included 20 first-team players
▪️ 9 reserve team players
▪️ 4 members of the coaching staff, most notably Ronald Koeman, who deferred around €6 million from his salary
🎯 Key figures in the agreement:
🔹 Messi:
▪️ Deferred amount: €47.6 million
▪️ Final installment: €5.96 million
▪️ All dues have been paid, according to sources close to the player
🔹 Umtiti:
▪️ Second highest beneficiary: €23.1 million
▪️ Despite a decline in performance, he was among the top earners
🔹 Sergio Busquets: €22 million
🔹 Griezmann: €18 million
🔹 Alba: €17.6 million
🔹 Coutinho: €15.9 million
🔹 Dembélé and Pjanić: €5.1 million each
🔹 Sergi Roberto: €4.8 million
🔹 Neto, Dest, Braithwaite, Junior Firpo: Between €1 to €2.5 million
🔹 Less than €1 million:
Pedri, Ansu Fati, Araújo, Riqui Puig, Aleñá, Matheus, Trincão.
✅ The final installment has now been paid, marking the end of one of the club’s most complex financial chapters and allowing a fresh start with fewer financial burdens.
[Diario Sport]
09/06/2025