During the break in La Liga, the leaders of Barcelona are trying to convince goalkeeper Mark-Andre Ter Stegen to sign a new contract.

According to the Spanish media, the first round of negotiations failed, as the goalkeeper did not accept the conditions offered by the club.

Ter Stegen moved to Barcelona from Monchengladbach in 2014 for 12 million euros. At Nou Camp, he became one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and he won all the trophies in club football with the Spanish giants.

His current contract with Barcelona expires in two years, and if the club wants to keep him, they will have to offer him a higher salary. Under the current contract, Ter Stegen has an annual salary of five million euros, and in the new contract, Barcelona offers him an annual salary of 6.5 million euros.

Ter Stegen is seeking a salary of 10 million euros a year, and believes that he deserves to be close to Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez.

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On Tuesday, UEFA fined Barcelona 15.000 Euros, for appearing late on the pitch, on their first leg of the last 16 match against Napoli.

The fine for the Barça team amounts to 15,000 euros as a result of the delay in appearing on the pitch. A fine that the club must pay within a period of 90 days. 

But according to the Spanish newspaper Sport, there are more things to look out for. Especially the one where the disciplinary body blames coach Quique Setien for this delay, They give him a warning, a step prior to being sanctioned with a suspension, for “being the most responsible for the delay” when the team appears on the pitch.

The resolution states that the club must assure UEFA that the Barça coach is informed of this situation. In the future, should something similar happen again, Setién would automatically be penalized with at least one match.

However, without a doubt the hardest sanction, is for the team from Naples, which has been sanctioned with 12,000 euros for the use of laser pointers to which another 15,000 are added also for leaving the pitch late. A total of 27,000 euros that must also be paid in the next 90 days.

Gattuso also receives a notice for this conduct as Quique Setien with the same procedure as that established for the coach of FC Barcelona.

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There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the players in Barcelona refusing to accept a pay cut because of the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

They point to the situation of Real Madrid, which announced that there would be no staff cuts, but the Catalan team’s players eventually agreed to drop as much as 70 percent of their salaries during the crisis.

And not only that, players led by Lionel Messi have announced that they will help the club ensure that all non-sporting staff in Barcelona have full income.

“Before we go any further, we want to make it clear that we have always been prepared to cut wages because we understand perfectly well that we are in an exceptional situation. We as players are always there to help the club when asked.

“For our party, the moment has come that the reduction will be 70% of our salary during the alarm period. We will also help the club so that workers are paid 100% of their wages.”

He says he is surprised that there are people in the club trying to put players under scrutiny and “put us under pressure to do something we always knew we would do”.

“It does not surprise us that there were some within the club who tried to put us in the loop and tried to put pressure on us to do something we always knew we were going to do. If we haven’t talked so far, it’s because the priority was to find solutions to help the club and see who were the most affected in this situation.

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