All these cases are about their image rights linked to some foreign company . What I ' d actually like to know is this how common was or is this practice , because at this point I find it hard to believe how can it be that only Barcelona players did this . The only reasonable explanation would be that they just all had worse assessors than the rest . I may accept that Barcelona is a den of thieves , but then I ' d like to know what is it that makes it that different . In other words I ' d like an actual list of the players in Spain , at a minimum that did , or do , this kind of financial engineering back in the day . And then , from that list and this is the most important part see which ones settled and which ones got prosecuted . Find out if there ' re are acutal differences in treatment from the prosecutors , as it happened in the Messi case . I say this because , at this point , it kind of seems that the only ones that the authorities find worth prosecuting are Barcelona players . I mean , many players from other clubs were also found to have evaded some taxes via similar methods , but all those cases were just settled by paying them . And I want to know the actual differences .