The management of FC Barcelona is still at war with its squad over the intention to apply a 30% salary reduction. This Monday, 'Marca' is publishing a letter sent by the management to the players on the same day, in which they try to justify both the measure and their way of acting.
With a few exceptions, such as Gerard Piqué, the Barcelona squad refuse to sit down and negotiate with their management over the 30% salary cut to be applied. At least, not in the way the board wants to do it.
In view of the controversy and lack of understanding, Barcelona's directors sent a letter to the players on Monday in which they tried to justify the measure, as well as the 'modus operandi' followed.
'Marca' had access to the letter and shows what the arguments of the club are. Firstly, on the negotiation table that the club wants to establish to deal with the salary reduction.
"There is no legal provision or reason that justifies the need to discuss measures based on economic causes at different tables and, on the other hand, to do so would be a contradiction in terms insofar as achieving a certain objective that conditions the viability of the club must be the result of the joint actions of all the groups and sections," the Barca letter states.
A complicated legal letter, but on the need to negotiate, the club says that the economic situation has worsened: "Your salary levels are only maintained in a scenario of full economic performance, as you well know, and this also happens in all European football clubs".
Finally, FC Barcelona remains firm in its conviction and calls on the players to negotiate within the terms and deadlines that have been set. It so happens that, as the aforementioned media explains, the team has no intention of sitting down to talk under these conditions.