Barcelona players refuse to accept pay cut during coronavirus crisis - report

Barcelona

Football across Europe has ground to a halt due to a health emergency that has triggered a national lockdown in Spain, the second-worst hit country on the continent after Italy.

According to AS, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu unsuccessfully tried to get the club’s first-team squad to accept a salary reduction.

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Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.