Messi's signing and LaLiga's '1 to 4' rule: Barça's headache

The continuity of Leo Messi in the FC Barcelona is 'ensured', to fault of confirmation. Before, the Barcelona deben reduce (in 50%) his mass salarial, through sales, cessions and discounts of the wages of the players, especially of the 'heavy weights' of the changing room. Achieve this aim permitará to the culés inscribe to the rosarino in his staff of face to the next season, a nightmare that could have avoided.

Messi left to be player of the Barça on 1 July, when it won officially his bond with the Barcelona entity. From this date, his case left to treat like a renewal since it is a free agent, to become a signing by part of the club. Although, in theory, is something simple, are many the conditions of this 'signing' that have caused a true quebradero of head for Joan Laporta and company, highlighting -once again- that all had been much simpler to having reached an agreement with the Argentinian before it culminated his agreement.

In this sense, the Barça is forced to treat to Leo like one of his others signings of this summer (Memphis Depay, Sergio Agüero, Emerson Royal and Eric García), what includes, also, the way in which it will begin to form part -again- of the staff of the Barcelona group, highlighting his registration with the rule '1 by 4', in which it has insisted in several occasions Javier Thebes, president of LaLiga.

When being a new contracting, the Barça governs by the rule of the patronal that establishes that the club only can invest for new signings a fourth part of what ingrese or save in traspasos or wages. That is to say, if the Barcelona achieve to reduce 40 million euros, only could use 10 'kilos' to inscribe to a player and, as it desvelado by 'L'Esportiu', will earn 20 net millions the next campaign.

It is something that Javier Thebes has commissioned to remember in the last weeks. The costarricense, in fact, even affirmed that it does not think that Messi can start the season with the Barça and that they are many the exits that the club has to achieve in the summer to be able to inscribe to his big star and maximum historical referent, in addition to the rest of traspasos.

Like this it could be the history

If Leo Messi had signed a new agreement with the FC Barcelona before 30 June the history would be much simpler for both parts. In fact, it would not have been necessary to apply the norm '1 to 4' because already the player was inscribed in LaLiga like Barcelona player and had considered like a renewal, no new contracting.