Barcelona board could ask squad to accept further wage cuts

The already agreed 70% wage cut during the current state of alarm provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic may not be enough as the board of directors look for solutions.

As was anticipated, the negotiation process between the FC Barcelona board of directors and first team squad failed to secure total agreement on the temporary 70% salary cut as was initially outlined in last Monday's communique.

In the original pact, the players were prepared to take an additional cut of 2% to ensure that club staff would not be faced with temporary redundancy.

It now transpires that the club may look to the squad to take a further cut at a later point with the initial proposal failing to cover the current economic shortfall which has been provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mundo Deportivo report how club president Josep Maria Bartomeu has requested that Barça executives prepare a full study on how the financial health of the Catalan club could potentially look when the impact of the virus has subsided.