Two of the candidates in Barcelona’s presidential election, Joan Laporta and Victor Font, insisted on Monday that Lionel Messi “generates more” than he earns after his “colossal” club contract was published in a Spanish newspaper.
“Leo generates much more income than the money he costs,” Joan Laporta, who is seeking to regain the presidency, told Rac1 radio.
“We have done a study and he generates a third of Barca’s total income.”
“It’s not only the economic return,” Laporta said. “But also the emotional and sporting return, and the vivid moments he gives us.”
Messi is in the last year of his contract.
On Sunday, under the headline “the colossal contract that ruins Barc…
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