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Lionel Messi reveals to Goal.com in an exclusive interview the reasons for his request to leave the club and the scenarios of his problems with president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi revealed the reasons for his request to leave the team in recent weeks.
So it came in an exclusive interview conducted by the Spanish version of Goal.com, during which Messi explained the real reason for withdrawing from that decision in the last hours.
Here is Messi’s dialogue with the Spanish version:
Why did he go so long without speaking?
First, because the defeat in Lisbon was very difficult, we knew that Bayern Munich were clearly a more difficult opponent, but we did not know that things would end like this. We were showing a very poor panorama of the club and the city, and I didn’t feel like doing anything, I wanted the time to pass first afterwards. So I’m talking. “
Why did you tell Barcelona that you wanted to go?
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I told the club and the president that I wanted to leave, I told them all year long, and I saw that it was the right time to leave, that the club needed more youth and renewal, that my time at Barcelona was over, and I felt sorry for wanting finish my degree here, it was the year. The current situation is very difficult, I have struggled with training and matches and in the dressing room, and the time has come when I am looking for new challenges. “
He added: “The request to leave did not appear because of the result against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. I have been thinking about that decision for a long time, and I told the president and he told me to make the final decision at the end of the season, and he didn’t keep his word to me. “
Have you ever felt lonely?
“No, I did not feel alone, there was always someone by my side, these people stop me and give me the necessary strength, but I felt pain for the things I heard, whether from people, from the press, or from people talking. from the scope of my commitment to Barcelona and saying things that I don’t think I deserve, but everything that happened helped me to see the truth of some “.
And he added: “The world of football is very difficult and there are many false people and everything that happened helped me unmask them, it is painful for me that they question my love for Barcelona, it does not matter if I stay or leave, but my love for the club will never change. “
Of everything that has been talked about, be it money or your teammates, what hurts you the most after 20 years at Barcelona?
“Everything in fact, talking about my friends, money and many other things that were said to each other was painful, because I always put the club before anything else, and I had the possibility of leaving Barcelona many times, and every year I could go and get more money but I would choose to stay at my place. “
He continued: “Deciding that there is something better, that was difficult for me, but I felt the need to change and seek new things and goals.”
In the end, you have to give up 20 years in Barcelona, your whole life and the survival of your family in the city was difficult for you, right, because we understood that you are still in Barcelona despite all that?
“Of course, the decision was very difficult for me, and it was not because of the result of the Bayern Munich game and there were many factors. I have always said that I want to finish here, and that I want a project that achieves titles to continue writing the Barcelona legend “.
And he added: “The truth is that there has been no project in Barcelona for a long time. There are some whims and coverage of gaps, and as I said before what I am looking for is always good for my family and for the club.”
What happened when you told your family that you were leaving Barcelona?
“When I told my wife and children about it, everything was very dramatic and everyone started crying and my children rejected the idea of leaving Barcelona and changing schools, but I looked further and wanted to compete at better levels and get titles, specifically the Champions League, and I know it is a difficult tournament, but I have to compete. ” .
He added: “At least we have to compete and not fall, as happened in Rome, Liverpool and Lisbon, all of which made me make that decision, and I imagined that I was free to go as the president told me at the end of each season, and now they are related to the fact that I did not tell them this before June 10, while on that date we were competing for the Spanish League due to the difficult circumstances in which we put the Corona virus.
He continued: “This is the reason why I will continue in the club, the president told me that the only way for me to leave is by paying 700 million euros, and that is impossible, and there was another way to go out on the courts, but I’m never going to stop at Barcelona in that situation, because I love it. ” That club after everything they gave me since my arrival ”.
And he added: “Barcelona gave me everything, and I gave everything I had for them, and it certainly didn’t occur to me to stand up to the club on the slopes.”
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