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But he launched a harsh attack on the Barça president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom he accused of retracting an agreement to let him leave for free at the end of last season.
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. Image: AFP
MADRID – Lionel Messi said on Friday that he will remain at Barcelona and insisted he could never go to court against “the club of his life.”
But he launched a harsh attack on the Barça president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom he accused of retracting an agreement to let him leave for free at the end of last season.
“The president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I wanted to go or if I wanted to stay and in the end he did not end up keeping his word,” Messi said in an interview with Goal, broadcast. on Friday.
“I thought and we were sure that he was free. The president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not and now they hold on to the fact that I did not say it before June 10 when it turns out that on June 10 we were competing for the league in the middle of this shitty virus and this date-altering disease.
Messi added: “And this is the reason why I will continue at the club … because the president told me that the only way out was to pay the termination clause of 700 million euros.”
“This is impossible, and then the other way around was to go to trial. I would never go to court against Barça because it is the club that I love, that gave me everything since I arrived, it is the club of my life, I have made my life here “.
Messi had said he wanted to leave the club he joined as a child after Barcelona’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League in August.
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