Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.
A four year contract of €555,237,619 is about €2,669,584 million euros per week. This is quite huge and unbelievable. In a club like Arsenal where the highest paid player earns about 280k/week, such an amount can pay 10 - 15 players. To be honest, I don't think Messi was greedy, not that he put a gun to their head and forced them give him such an offer. Barcelona did what they did because they wanted to tie him down and he took it. It was very stupid of them to do that and they're responsible for whatever financial mess they find themselves.