{"id":309931,"date":"2021-01-31T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=309931"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:59:17","slug":"details-of-messis-barcelona-contract-which-is-biggest-in-sports-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=309931","title":{"rendered":"Details of Messi&#8217;s Barcelona contract which is biggest in sports history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A copy of Lionel Messi\u2019s contract at Barcelona obtained by Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, shows that he has the biggest deal in sports history.<br \/>\nMessi would reportedly receive a maximum of \u20ac555,237,619 over four seasons, if a series of clauses were met.<br \/>\nThe 30-page contract saw Barca agreeing to pay the forward \u20ac138,000,000 per season, including variables.<br \/>\nIt included a signing-on bonus of \u20ac115,225,000 for accepting the renewal and a \u201cloyalty\u201d bonus of \u20ac77,929,955.<br \/>\nThe contract was agreed in November 2017 and expires on June 30, 2021.<br \/>\nMessi will leave Camp Nou if he does not agree fresh terms with the LaLiga giants.<br \/>\nThe 33-year-old tried to force an exit last summer, arguing that there was a clause in the deal that allowed him to walk away for free, before eventually backing down.<br \/>\nThe size of Barca\u2019s financial commitment to Messi, is one of a number of deals that have left the club\u2019s accounts in a perilous position.<br \/>\nTheir most recent set of accounts showed a total debt of over a billion euros and player wages are responsible for almost three-quarters of the club\u2019s budget.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A copy of Lionel Messi\u2019s contract at Barcelona obtained by Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, shows that he has the biggest deal in sports history. Messi would reportedly receive a maximum of \u20ac555,237,619 over four seasons, if a series of clauses were met. The 30-page contract saw Barca agreeing to pay the forward \u20ac138,000,000 per season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,2398],"class_list":["post-309931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}