Barcelona's board rejected the signing of Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi's contract in Barcelona was made public earlier this month and it is not yet clear how this information became public.
The full details of
Messi's contract at the Camp Nou were revealed earlier this month in a report that dominated the
Barcelonanews for weeks.
Attention is now being drawn to who could reveal the deal's details, but the club's interim president Carlos Tusquets has denied that he or anyone else on the club's board were involved in the leak.
Former club president
Josep Maria Bartomeu
has previously denied any role in the leak.
The exit of Bartomeu brought an end to a somewhat fractious with the star player with the Messi news last summer, seeing the player launch a concentrated effort to leave the club, only for the board to block any potential exit.
However, the former president has denied any role in exposing the deal.
Tusquets said
: "The details of the contract have not left the management because no one has ever asked for it.
"We have opened an investigation in the club."
Among the disclosures of the 80 pages document detailing Messi's various clauses was the fact that he earned €555,237,619 during his four-year deal.
Messi's contract will expire in June, and his future is not clear beyond the current competition.
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