It is said that Barcelona threatened De Jong, Pique and other four people to renew their contracts, which involved illegal crimes and demanded the restoration of their original contracts

2022-08-09 11:55

It is said that Barcelona threatened De Jong, Pique and other four people to renew their contracts, which involved illegal crimes and demanded the restoration of their original contracts


Subject to the financial fairness policy of La Liga, although Barcelona completed the "five sons" in the transfer market this summer -- signing Casey, Christensen, Rafinha, Lewand and Conde in a row, but they However, the registration of the new aid has never been completed. In order to relieve the club's increasingly overwhelmed financial pressure, Barcelona had to put the only most marketable player in the first team, 25-year-old Dutch midfielder De Jong, on the shelves, while forcing him to take a significant pay cut; local At 11:00 a.m. on August 8th, TA's chief football reporter David Ornstein published a column saying that Barcelona had clearly informed De Jong on July 15th that the contract signed by the Dutch midfielder and the former board of directors had Suspected of breaking the law, they want to cancel their existing 4-year contract and restore their salary levels to what they were before the 2020 extension.


On July 1, 2019, De Jong left a sky-high price of 86 million euros for Ajax and then switched to Barcelona. In October of the following year, he followed the footsteps of Pique, Langley and Ter Stegen to complete the renewal with the Catalan giants. about. According to the contract, De Jong accepted the conditions of deferred payment of 70% of the salary; in return, the Dutchman will start the 2022/23 season with a salary increase of 20.88 million euros, 27.7 million euros, 18 million euros and 22 million euros respectively. ——Part of it is the salary that has been deferred in the past, and a small part is various floating terms. Up to now, Barcelona has not settled all the outstanding wages of the Netherlands international, whose total salary is as high as 18 million euros.


Ornstein then stated that he had learned from sources in Spain that Barca sent a letter to De Jong on July 15, claiming that their legal department had found clear signs of criminality in the Netherlands international's contract extension; The Blues are in dialogue with the players' camp, threatening De Jong and his representatives with the possibility of being implicated. Ornstein finally revealed that Barcelona is having similar conversations with Pique, Ter Stegen and others, although it is not clear whether they have also received similar letters "of a legal nature".


A stone stirred up a thousand waves. Once Ornstein's report came out, a number of Western media, including "World Sports", "Daily Sports", Searle Radio, Kobe Radio, RAC1 and Catalunya Radio, all recounted Barcelona. The statement issued on this matter further corroborates the credibility of the TA news. According to Barcelona, in addition to De Jong, the contract renewals of Pique, Ter Stegen and Lenglet also involved illegal acts, which at the same time caused Barcelona to increase future salary expenditures of 311 million euros. Barcelona then stated that at present, only Pique has decided to give up the contract extension signed in 2020, and the other three have not reached any agreement with the Red and Blue Army so far.