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Lionel messi He seems to have decided to leave Barcelona and in the last week he acted accordingly, first sending the club the famous burofax to show his intentions and in the days after not showing up for the medical tests and the first training session with Ronald Koeman as a coach.
But his departure will not be easy and for that reason his father Jorge traveled to Catalonia to meet with President Josep Maria Bartomeu and try to impose the position of the footballer to demand his freedom under clause 24.
Meanwhile, Manchester City awaits the resolution with a multimillion dollar contract according to the best player in the world although without the possibility of paying for his transfer for fear of breaching the Financial Fair Play that put his participation in the next Champions League in check.
In the midst of all this complicated situation at a contractual, legal and economic level, more as a paternal gesture than as a coach, different media in Spain They claim that Pep Guardiola would have advised Messi to stay in Barcelona. Something that seems illogical due to the unthinkable opportunity presented to the City to enhance its star-studded team in its quest to win the Champions League but which the Catalan DT had already expressed on other occasions.
In the English club they do not doubt the qualities of the Rosario star but they fear that their finances will not withstand such an investment, which would be around 100 million euros per year between salary and taxes, and most likely force them to part with some other important player on the squad.
Guardiola returned to England on Monday accompanied by his field assistant Juan Manuel Lillo after having been in Barcelona just after Messi announced his wish not to continue with the Catalan club. The presence of Pep drew attention for several days because of Manchester City’s interest in hiring the Rosario star to be part of their ranks from next season.
As reported in the Spanish media, Guardiola and Messi had a telephone contact before sending the burofax but they would have spoken again before Pep’s departure to Manchester and this is summarized by Mundo Deportivo: “Pep told him that given the economic difficulty of the operation, the best he could do was stay at Barça and finish his career at the Camp Nou, an idea that the technician has ever expressed in public ”.
Anyway, this will not be so if Messi, through his father and his lawyers, imposes his conditions, he gets freedom and City should not pay for his pass or the 700 million euros of the termination clause or any other sum elevated for his pass beyond his high contract.
Crucial days are coming in the negotiations that will define the future of the best player in the world and nothing can be ruled out, not even that he continues in Barcelona
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