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Much has been said and written since Lionel Messi officially sent a fax to Barcelona asking the club to allow him to leave for free. While Barcelona and La Liga have argued that a club must pay a total buyout clause of € 700 million to have Messi’s services, many reports have stated that the buyout clause expired after the end of the 2019-20 season. , which triggered another clause that allows the Argentine to leave for free.
While Messi has not come out in public about this, as a show of respect for his longtime club, Barcelona is not treating the six-time Ballon d’Or as well. Messi did not show up for the PCR test and training when Barça began their preseason training with the left-handed megastar.
According to the latest reports, Messi’s father Jorge will arrive in Barcelona to start talks with the club’s president, Josep Bartomeu, on Thursday. Although Bartomeu does not want to hear anything related to Messi’s departure from the club, Jorge is ready to ask the Barça manager to allow his son to leave the club.
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Apparently, Messi has not received the call from Bartomeu while ignoring his messages on WhatsApp with the Barça president trying to convince the Argentine that the club can regain its glory days.
Interestingly, Manchester City officials, especially Ferran Soriano, are in Spain and will reportedly meet Messi’s father later this week. Top Barcelona officials have begun to think that time is running out for Messi and that the 33-year-old has made a decision about leaving the club.
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The matter could end in court if Barcelona do not allow Messi to leave the club, according to a clause that allows him to leave for free. However, both Messi and Barcelona will not wait for that confrontation and could reach a mutual agreement. But it all depends on how the match ends and Bartomeu and Jorge Messi.
Since his debut in the 2003/04 campaign, Messi has played 731 games for Barcelona, scoring 634 goals in all competitions.
