Barcelona squad reportedly refuses salary cuts, Luis Suarez infuriated

DBasia.news –  Barcelona striker, Luis Suarez, was disappointed when he heard the news that his team refused salary cuts due to the impact of the corona virus. According to the Uruguayan, that is completely untrue.

Salary cuts among players must be done after Barcelona’s financial disruption due to the corona virus pandemic. Negotiations between the club’s management and the players regarding salary deductions were deadlocked after the club’s first offer was rejected.

With this situation, Barca then announced that the club would use ERTE (Spanish Labor Law) to cut the salaries of all club employees, even if it meant being done unilaterally or without mutual agreement.

Barcelona’s biggest expenditure is the salaries of its players that reached 500 million euros per year. In the process, the salaries of Suarez and his colleagues must be cut by 70 percent for the time being.

“A lot of painful things have been said regarding the salary cuts of the players,” Suarez told Sport 890.

“People say that the players don’t want to accept it, then it is said that some players have reached an agreement, when the reality is that we are waiting to try and find the best solution for the club.”

“It hurts when people say things like that because we are always the first people who want to reach an agreement, because we know the situation of the club.”

“There are no players in the Barca squad who refuse salary cuts. A mutual agreement was reached between the players and the club. The captains spoke to the president and no one refused, “he concluded.