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The salary limit exists in the LFP but it does not work so easily as to justify Messi's departure or Piqué's salary reduction. No. The regulations that regulate the salary limit can be read by everyone, and it is not easy to understand, but in any case it is clear that a player cannot lower his salary when he wants to be able to "help" the registration of others players, since it goes against articles 38 and 39 of the Norm for Preparing the Budget (LEP).

The salary limit exists in the LFP but it does not work so easily as to justify Messi's departure or Piqué's salary reduction. No. The regulations that regulate the salary limit can be read by everyone, and it is not easy to understand, but in any case it is clear that a player cannot lower his salary when he wants to be able to "help" the registration of others players, since it goes against articles 38 and 39 of the Norm for Preparing the Budget (LEP).

Nor is it real that a franchise player like Messi whose contract ended on June 30, 2021 has been (all of July 2021), that is, almost 5 weeks in Copa América and that before him FCB has signed Agüero, Depayin, Emerson and Eric Garcia. We do not have to confuse signing players without paying a transfer with signing 4 players who occupy a salary limit that later causes Messi to have no salary space. These 4 signings have occupied salary space of the salary limit that FCB has assigned.

In conclusion, we can say that if the Barça team had really wanted to renew the player Messi, the logical thing from a budgetary point of view would have been not to incorporate the four players that they had incorporated before renewing Messi. Everyone can reach the conclusions they want, but it is indisputable that when you occupy salary space with the player Agüero, who can play in the same position as Messi, it is evident that you were already thinking about not renewing Messi, who probably already had an agreement with him. Paris team for a year when he sent the burofax in the summer of 2020 announcing that he was leaving FCB because he understood that his contract had ended on June 30, 2020.