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Lionel Messi has been harshly criticized by the club president after announcing his departure from Barcelona for one more season. In a sense, the president of the club, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has ‘deceived’ him.
Bartomeu has repeatedly said that since Messi passed the June 10 contract deadline, he has no chance of leaving the club. But Messi has claimed that he had a verbal agreement with the club president that he could decide whether to leave the club once the 2019-20 season is over.
“I told the club, including the president, that I wanted to go,” Messi told the soccer website Goal.com. I’ve been saying it all year, because I think it’s time to move on. I really think the club needs new and young players now and my time at Barcelona is over. ‘
“The president did not keep his word,” Messi said. “I told the president and the president always said he would make a decision at the end of the season.” If I decide to go or stay, it will be at the end of the season. But he did not keep his word.
“I have been telling the president all year that I want to leave the club, it is time to set new goals and paths for my career,” Messi added. He said, well, it’s not now, they say that. But he did not say exactly what he meant.
“They are saying now, I did not express my intention to leave the club before June 10,” Messi said. But then we were in the middle of all the competition, so this is not the time to say.
The six-time Ballon d’Or winner from Argentina has criticized club president Bartomeuke for not speaking again.
Messi assured that Bartomeu had never mentioned a specific date before, “He never set a date, in the end I sent a burofax to officially announce that I was no longer there. It was not my intention to start a fight. Because I never wanted to fight against the club.”
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