Another effort from Piqué: the defender lowered his salary for the third time so that Barcelona’s numbers get closer

He was one of the figures in the golden age of Barcelonawho won 14 titles in four seasons at the hands of Pep Guardiolabut he also experienced evil, such as the historic 8-2 with Bayern Munich and times when Barça sailed aimlessly.

Gerard Piqué He has a huge sense of belonging to Culé, the club that formed him and where he is about to play his fifteenth season as a professional, that’s why He has been doing everything he can for months to keep playing there.

Against all odds, as his hectic pace of life, with the scandalous separation from Shakira in between and constant injuries, has led him to conflict with Xavi Hernandez, who instead chose to hire the Frenchman Jules Koundé.

However, Piqué resists. It seemed his future was far from Barcelona a few months ago but a face to face conversation with Giovanna Laporta in June, in which he promised to put excesses aside and focus solely on getting in shape physically, as well as accept a salary reduction of almost 50%, changed the course of history. At least for now.

The president, together with the sports director Mateu Alemanni, acted as a mediator of the conflicts between the player and the coach, which today seem to have fallen behind.

At the beginning of the year the defender had come out at the crossroads of versions that indicated him as the highest paid player in the squad and answered directly to the journalist Lluis Canut, host of the ‘Onze’ program, for ‘Esport 3’, who assured that his file per year it was 28 million euros.

“Characters like this who upload from public television to defend their friends. Here you have 50% of my salary collected until December 30th. A little respect”fired the plant, via Twitter, and left a photo showing the figure of 2,328,884.39.

In addition to the pay cut he accepted in June, he had already done so in August 2021, when he was ronald koeman at the head of the team, which allowed the registration of memphis depay Y Eric Garcia as reinforcements.

Subsequently, they continued on their way Sergio Busquet, Sergio Roberto Y Giordi Albathe other team captains, to give an economic break to the coffers of a club that suffered losses of 487 million euros in the 2020-21 season.

Now, a new gesture from Piqué. The renewal of the contract he had signed with Bartomeu until June 2024 included an increase that the former Manchester United, after talks with the current board of directors, agreed not to charge.