Barcelona sounded out a salary cut with Christensen and Kessie

Barça's sporting management, together with the financial managers, continue to work intensively on reducing the wage bill, which, as is public knowledge, must be reduced by 200 million to comply with La Liga's Fair Play rules. Although some of the solutions needed to achieve this objective have been planned, most of them have not yet been implemented. 

The effort that the club is asking for goes in all directions and no type of scenario is ruled out, which is why those in charge of the club are not missing any opportunity to try to cut back. No one is escaping a policy of essential cuts so that Barça can continue to build a winning project.

Not even footballers who have not even been at Camp Nou for only a year have been spared. Among the many meetings and negotiations that have taken place, the sporting management did not hesitate to discuss the advisability of accepting a reduction in Franck Kessie's and Andreas Christensen's wage bill. The objective was to find out firsthand what both thought about the proposal, although the response was not positive.

Both the centre-back and the midfielder think their commitment to the project is unquestionable because they arrived last summer without a transfer fee and resisted the pressure of their previous clubs, Chelsea and Milan, respectively, to sign new deals. In addition, they had other offers and prioritised wearing the Barça shirt over any other option. Finally, they accepted their place within the salary scale imposed by the club without any problems.

Both Kessie and Christensen understand that the club's economy is delicate, but that it was also delicate last summer and, since then, they have not even completed a full year of their contract, which is why they consider that this is not the right time to offer them a reduction of this type. Faced with this position, the club has no choice but to honour what they have signed and look for alternative solutions.