Barcelona's Lionel Messi agrees new contract, to become world's best paid footballer.
Barcelona star, Lionel Messi has signed a new contract that would make him the best paid footballer in the world. He will only overtake his Real Madrid nemesis, Cristiano Ronaldo by a very small fraction. While Ronaldo’s salary is put at €20 million per year, Messi will earn
€20.5 million. Despite the new package, Ronaldo will earn more from image rights.
Below is a statement on the club’s site
“FC Barcelona has reached an agreement to adjust the terms in the contract binding Leo Messi to the club as a professional first team player. The revised and updated contract will be signed over the next few days.”
This will also end the rumours making rounds for the past few weeks linking him with one club or the other. In actual fact, over 15 clubs reportedly approached him this season. The Argentine is 8 goals away from becoming the highest goalscorer in the history of the Spanish first division. The new contract will expire in 2019.
Real Madrid tops Forbes' list of world's most valuable football teams+ Top 5 teams.
The richest football team in the world, Real Madrid has topped Forbes’ list of the most valuable football teams in the world. The nine-time champions of Europe are reportedly worth $3.44 billion. And for the first time since Forbes began ranking, two Spanish teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona, have occupied the top two spots.
Top 5 teams
(1) Real Madrid ($3.44 billion)
(2) Barcelona ($3.28 billion)
(3) Manchester United ($2.81 billion)
(4) Bayern Munich ($1.85 billion)
(5) Arsenal ($1.33 billion)
FIFA suspends Barcelona's transfer ban
Mourinho quoted calling Real Madrid stars sons of bitches, the most treacherous squad in new book.
FIFA bans Barcelona from signing players for two transfer windows.
Conversation between Messi and Pepe in the last el-clasico revealed.
Samuel Eto'o opens up on his relationship with former boss. "Pep Guardiola is a coward, he never had the courage to say things in front of me."
Chelsea striker and former Barcelona player, Samuel Eto’o has opened up on his relationship with his former boss, Pep Guardiola while at the spanish club. The Cameroonian revealed that during the 2008/2009 season, the incumbent Bayern Munich coach spoke to him on few occasions and used other players to communicate more.
“I first of all reminded Guardiola that he’d never been a great player. He was a good player, that’s true. I told him. As a coach, he had proven nothing. He came in and didn’t even know the story of the dressing room. Guardiola has never had the courage to say things in front of me. He passed by the players. Xavi told me they wanted me to stay but I had to talk to Pep. I say “never, if you do not respect me, I do not respect you. There were three occasions when he spoke to me that season.
One was when he wanted me to speak to Yaya Toure, who didn’t want to talk to him either. Another was when he told me how to move like a striker. I told him: “You’re not normal!” The true story is that Pep didn’t respect the things in football.
He shook hands with me when I was at Inter and I played against Barca, but this was just for the cameras and TV. Behind the scenes before the match, he did not greet me.’