The Barça dressing room asked for a bonus for the Super Cup that Laporta rejected

Published:14/02/2024 - 14:29h

Updated:15/02/2024 - 03:28h

The FC Barcelona squad, hours before the defeat against Real Madrid in the Super Cup, had sent a request to Joan Laporta in case they were crowned champions, which had to do with a financial bonus. However, Laporta would have denied this approach

The FC Barcelona lived to beginnings of this 2024 a deafening fall in a tournament in which it expected to generate a turning point in the campaign: the Supercopa of Spain. After attaining a solid victory in front of Osasuna (2-0) to advance to the final, confronted to a Real Madrid in a big moment so that it took advantage of the weaknesses of the game culé and carried the trophy of champion with a conclusive 4-1.

The staff culé wanted to receive a premium if they won the Supercopa

Recently, as it advanced in 'Catalonia Ràdio' and later confirmed by 'The Avant-garde', there was a meeting distended between two Barcelona captains, whose names did not mention , and Joan Laporta, president of the club, in the hotel where lodged , the JW Marriott. During the meeting argued a subject related with the payment of a special premium in case to win the Supercopa.

Always according to the same source, also posed that this economic compensation was not alone for the players, but also for the rest of professionals that form part of the team. Between this group go in hard-working like preparadores physical, nutricionistas, fisioterapeutas and other employees of the club, a total of roughly 30 people.

Laporta 'Braked' the idea of this economic compensation

Equally, it gave to know that during the conversation between the captains and the maximum Barcelona representative mentioned the fact that the players of the Real Madrid would receive a premium for winning the final. Joan Laporta would have requested confirmation of this information to Florentino Pérez, president of the picture merengue, but later denied , since apparently the answer that received Laporta was that the square of Chamartín would not reward to his players with part of the 5,1 M€ that would receive for winning the title.

Although there are several informations that sustain that the mandator of the white club would have delivered 150.000 euros between the staff, also there are sources of the cast merengue that ensure that "there are tournaments that do not have premium, and the Supercopa of Spain is one of them". When seeming, this measure also would be being applied in the FC Barcelona from does a time. In any case, the Barcelona picture did not have to take this decision, since finally they did not attain to revalidate the title.