Spanish professional football Primera Liga FC Barcelona and’star star’ Lionel Messi have decided to take legal action against the Spanish media’El Mundo’, which revealed their contract details.
Sports media ESPN decided on the 1st (Korean time) to take legal action against “Messiga’s’El Mundo’.
It was confirmed that no contract was leaked inside the Barcelona club,” he said. “There are four copies of Messi’s contract, which are kept by Messi, Barcelona, La Liga secretariat and Quatrecasas, the law firm Messi uses.”
‘El Mundo’ revealed the details of the contract when Messi and Barcelona renewed their contract in November 2017 on the 3rd of last month in local time.
Reportedly, Messi will receive about 555 million euros (about 750 billion won) for four seasons until June this year when the contract ends.
In addition, the amount received per season is 138 million euros (approximately 187 billion won), a signing bonus of 115 million euros (approximately 156 billion won) and a loyalty bonus of 77.9 million euros (approximately 1,000 billion won). 5.6 billion won) was also added.
‘El Mundo’ pointed out that the deal with Messi ruined the team while Barcelona appealed for severe financial difficulties due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
In response, Barcelona said in a statement, “We are sorry that the contract between the club and Messi was leaked, in which the principle of confidentiality should be observed.”
“We are going to take legal action against’El Mundo’ regarding the damages caused by the disclosure of the contract.”
/yunhap news
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