Pique explodes for the salary of Coutinho (and unleashes a civil war at Barça)

Jealousy. FC Barcelona's dressing room has become a pressure cooker.
 The filtering of Philippe Coutinho's salary has spread like an epidemic.

The heavyweights of Barça comment on it. And they are outraged. If they finally sign Coutinho, he will be ahead of many on the salary scale. They disagree.

Andrés Iniesta and Leo Messi have had to calm down. They act as captains and want the team to be focused on sports, not money.

The two have just renewed and know that their situation is controlled. But Gerard Piqué, one of the best friends of the board of directors in the staff, does not think in the same way .

The central Barça is very well valued in the dome for his contacts and knowledge. Nobody forgets that it was key to close the sponsorship agreement with Rakuten.

However, they have played a trick on him. Piqué is the third highest paid player of the team along with Iniesta and Busquets. Neymar passed them before leaving..

The gap left by the Brazilian crack could be filled by his compatriot Coutinho. The still player of Liverpool would surpass in salary all those cited, being only behind Messi and Luis Suarez.

In the dressing room reigns the opinion that Coutinho can be very good, but in no case as to charge more than heavyweights. He does not have so much experience.

Piqué, Coutinho and the scandal figures

Piqué charges 14 million euros gross and is awaiting a renewal because it ends contract in 2019. But the directive aims to lengthen it because if Piqué renews , Busquets will ask for more.

In the long run, the idea is that both are again at the level of Suarez. But it does not do them any grace that Coutinho, 25, is on the same salary scale as them.

So much so that from the locker room, many have expressed against the signing in the winter market. A crack of 120 to 150 million, which will charge more than them and above will not play the Championsdoes not make sense.

The club seems to be more and more in that line because Liverpool does not give a whit. Jurgen Kloppdoes not want to lose one of his cracks being qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League, where he will face Oporto.

The English club, absent from the top European competition for a long time, knows that this is a historic opportunity. The move to quarters is very favorable. And they need Coutinho.