Back at Atlético since the summer of 2021, first on loan and then in final transfer, Antoine Griezmann is still paid by FC Barcelona! In December 2020, the Catalan club had reached the background financially due to catastrophic management under the chairmanship of Josep Maria Bartomeu and COVID-19. The leaders had agreed with the players so as not to pay the first six months' salary of the year 2021.
The players had agreed to postpone half a salary for an incredible total of 121.7 million euros! Lionel Messi had accepted, he who sank the finances of the company, as well as “Grizi”, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Philippe Coutinho, who all pocketed more than 15 million euros per year! The club proposed to spread this salary backwards from December 2021 until June 2025. The very last payment, scheduled for June 30, left this Friday.
As reminded Sport.esGriezmann's salary amounted to 18 million euros. The star of the French team of the time, leader of the 2018 world champions, had initialed a contract with progressive emoluments. His return to Atlético saved the finances of the Barcelona club, the native of Mâcon having agreed to receive “only” 10 million euros among the Colchoneros.
Griezmann and Umtiti XXL wages
Among the big wages of the time, we discover that Samuel Umtiti visibly earthed almost 20 million euros and his wage delay was therefore 9.9 million. At the end of the contract at LOSC this June 31, after a white season, the central defender of the 2018 world champion will therefore receive a last jackpot coming from Catalonia. Ousmane Dembélé, he had made one cross out of 5.1 million euros at the time.
The former coach of Barça Ronald Koeman, sidelined in November 2021, still had to receive almost 6 million euros in unpaid wages. His three assistants, including former scorer Henrik Larsson, awaited a total of one million euros. Four years later, President Joan Laporta's FCB finally reimbursed everyone.
