ANDBarcelona is finalizing an agreement with Nikola Mirotic and with Cory Higginstwo players whose contracts he terminated exactly a year ago, as he was unable to meet their high contracts and owed them a large amount of money, more than 20 million to the Spanish-Montenegrin and 3.4 to the Americanaccording to Encestando.
Mirotic had two more years of contract with the blue and red team when he was cut, at a rate of five million net per seasonan amount absolutely outside the market, which meant an amount of almost 22 million for those two yearsan unaffordable figure for the section of a club that was then practically bankrupt.
He Barcelona then reached an agreement with the player whereby he charged less of what he had signed after his signing, deferring part of the salary that corresponds to himespecially in the years of the pandemic, for years to come. The problem is that after their departure to the Armani Milanthe blue and garnet club still owed him that large amount of money, and The player and his agent threatened to take them to court.
Agreement to pay the debt in installments
To avoid this situation, the Barcelona has chosen to reach an agreement to pto pay his former player what he owed him in several installments. In this way that amount not counted as wage bill and not affect the current budget of the section and the movements it is making to reinforce its staff.
In the same case was found Cory Higginswhose contract was also unilaterally terminated on August 1, 2023, although in the case of the American the amount was much lower, about 3.4 million, which will also be paid in installments to prevent him from taking them to court. Both that money and the money he will pay Mirotic The club will discount them in the coming years as losses so as not to affect either this or future budgets.
