Messi ‘asked Barcelona for jet, luxury box for Suarez, €10m bonus’ before PSG move
September 21, 2022
By Ifreke Inyang
Details of Lionel Messi’s contract extension talks with Barcelona in 2020 have messi in argentina jersey been leaked by Spanish newspaper, El Mundo.
Messi was in talks over extending his stay w who did messi swap shirts with against psg paris fc t shirt ith the LaLiga club at the time, psg kit dls 2021 prior to him trying to force a move away in the same summer.
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A series of emails exchanged between the player’s father and agent, Jorge Mendes, his lawyers and then-Barcelona president Jo psg kit 5-6 sep Maria Bartomeu and then-CEO Oscar Grau, showed that all of Messi’s requests were accepted by the club, apart from the Argentine’s demand to remove his €700 million (£613m) release clause.
Instead, the player wanted to have a symbolic €10,000 (£8,750) release clause psg kit url 2021 should he wish to leave the club at any time.
Messi also demanded his family be given access to a luxury box psg jersey gold at Camp Nou. Also, he asked for his friend and team-mate at the time, Luis Suarez, to have the same access for a separate box at the stadium.
Messi also wanted the club to give him a private jet, to fly him and his family to and from Argentina for the Christmas holidays.
Furthermore, Messi wanted a €10m (£8.75m) signing on bonus for ag argentina messi jersey 2021 reeing on a new deal and recovering the wage cut that he had agreed during the pandemic with an interest rate of three per cent.
Messi ‘asked Barcelona for jet, luxury box for Suarez, €10m bonus’ before PSG move