“If no player goes out, it will be impossible.”

Barcelona – Barcelona, ​​which continues to work to reduce its salary bill as quickly as possible in order to adapt Lionel Messi’s new contract, received a new notice from La Liga on Thursday through its president, Javier Tebas, who in a few brief statements to and retracted from the possibility that FC Barcelona From the Argentine footballer’s recording “If there was no exit before”.

“I don’t know; I’m not at Barcelona,” Tebas said dryly in the direct question of whether Barcelona could sign Leo today, and remained consistent that there would be no preferential treatment for FC Barcelona from the organisation: “The rules are what they are and everyone has to comply with it, including That’s Barcelona.”

“One thing is to go beyond the salary limit and the other is to be able to merge or renew players with the base we call one by one, which for every four euros I save I can use one,” said the captain, far from showing any class of sympathy or trust with The efforts made by Joan Laporta’s board of directors in recent weeks, have shown an undisputed tough stance and an unexpected threatening tone.

The president of the Employers Association was directly asked: “If Barcelona can’t get any player out, will Leo Messi be able to score in La Liga or is it impossible?” His answer summed it up: “If no player goes out, it will be impossible.”

In this way, 38 days before the start of the tournament, Barcelona continues to work on reducing the squad from which players have already begun to leave but there are still a large number of players indicated.

If full-back Akieme’s move to Almería, where he played on loan last season and the option to buy him for 3.5 million euros was implemented by the Andalusian club, was the last exit (although in his case no big salaries were released), now the main names that Barcelona are working on it are Umtiti, Pjanic and Coutinho, whose departure, whether relocated or relocated, means an approximate savings of 50 million salaries.

At the moment, Barcelona has entered about 30 million euros in transfers and saved about 20 in salaries but needs to reduce this concept by about 200, so the separation of victims remains open with more players, among them Neto and Braithwaite are also prominent. …all this apart from renegotiating contracts that are supposed to be forced with footballers who will continue at the club, such as Pique (who has already had a conversation in this regard with Laporta), Busquets or Jordi Alba.