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Barcelona Begs Pique, Busquets To Reduce Big Salaries

FC Barcelona are asking Gerard Piqué & Sergio Busquets for a salary reduction to register all of the signings made this summer.

If the superstars do not accept, the club will have a big problem according to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano on Wednesday night.

Barcelona have until Saturday, August 13 to register their new players but cannot afford to do so until they terminate the contracts of certain players or have them drastically reduce their enormous salaries.

However some of the payers are adamant that the club must pay the salaries in their contracts and have refused to budge.

Frankie de Jong is one of such players who are being owed large of sum of deferred salaries and is now being expected to forgo his money and sign for Manchester United on a bid to bring in more players.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.