Board and players reach agreement on overdue wages at São Paulo | OneFootball

The management of São Paulo has reached an agreement with the players to settle the salary delays.

As AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR revealed on January 27, the new administration under Harry Massis, with Rafinha as guarantor, will divide the overdue payments into up to ten monthly installments, with the intention of balancing the finances and ending a recurring practice in recent years, when the club consistently had at least a month's delay in these payments.

As the president himself admitted last month, while the salaries are up to date, the issue at Tricolor lies with the image rights. The club even tried to address the situation at the beginning of last year, when they began paying the athletes' rights through the issuance of invoices. However, it seems that the management of the predecessor Julio Casares managed to complicate the schedule of obligations even further.

According to AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, Massis took over finding discrepancies in this area. Some players are two months behind on their rights, while others are four months behind, especially the foreign players, who cannot easily formalize the opening of a company in the country to obtain a CNPJ for issuing invoices as a legal entity.

While the initial plan was to settle the arrears by May, the financial situation proved more complex and required a longer period to reach an agreement with the squad. It took longer than expected to reach an understanding.

The report spoke with at least two players from the team, one of them in a leadership role, who praised Massis's approach. According to them, the president and Rafinha held more than one meeting on the matter and laid bare the financial situation, also discussing the need to strengthen the squad, hence the decision to hire Cauly. The commitment to keep the salaries on record up to date was assured.

The understanding is that with the agreement to pay the arrears, the internal environment will become even more peaceful than it has been in recent days, with the return of good form and victories.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.