PEOPLE SAY THAT LIONEL MESSI AND HIS HUGE SALARY WAS THE REASON OF BARCELONA GOING IN DEBT.

 Now people with limited knowledge are saying that it was the huge weekly salary of Lionel Messi, was the actual reason why Barcelona were facing a huge debt f 1.5 billion pounds.

 But this is not at all true in reality Lionel Messi was responsible for Barcelona getting Sponsor deals in millions of pounds.

 Sponsors would ask is Lionel Messi at Barcelona for the next few years then only they would agree to Sponsor Barcelona.

 Now here are the figures explained in a better and simple way.

 LionelMessi generated 30 percent of e sponsor money company like Adidas, Nike, Coco Cola and Pepsi are just a few. And his yearly salary was 8, eight percent of that amount, so Barcelona made a neat profit of 22 percent of the sponsor Deals.