Mercato Barça: Gérard Piqué offers to play for free for Barcelona in order to register recruits

In three days, FC Barcelona will play their first league game against Rayo Vallecano. Can Xavi count on his recruits (Lewandowski, Koundé, Raphinha, Christensen and Kessié)? Last week, La Liga did not approve their contracts because of Barca’s financial record. As a locker room manager, Gerard Piqué proposed a radical solution, according to AS, to allow the registration of new players: evolve for free with his training club. A proposal refused by the Barcelona management.

However, as he did last year at the same time, to be able to register rookies Memphis Depay and Eric Garcia, the 35-year-old Spanish international defender (103 caps) will lower his emoluments. As Frenkie de Jong, Clément Lenglet and Marc-André ter Stegen, Gerard Piqué extended his contract in 2020 (note: until 2024) with a deferral of payment of part of his salary. An additional cost of some 311 million euros in the future for the four players, revealed the daily Sport on Tuesday.

In the defensive hierarchy of FC Barcelona, ​​Gerard Pique is in fifth position behind Jules Koundé, Ronald Araujo, Andreas Christensen and Eric Garcia. But according to ASthe Catalan would have shared his ambitions with Joan Laporta for this 2022-23 season and would remain convinced of being able to scratch playing time for his fifteenth consecutive exercise under the colors of Barcelona.