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Saturday 5 September 2020
Lionel Messi will remain at FC Barcelona for another year and should put an end to the nightmare in which he plunged the club and the fans very quickly. To do this, you first have to work with what was left behind during your strike.
World footballer Lionel Messi is expected on Monday at Spanish club FC Barcelona’s training session. Before that, the 33-year-old will undergo a crown test at the weekend. Last Sunday, Messi, willing to change, boycotted the Covid-19 test and the start of the Catalans’ training on Monday to force a change. On Friday, the Barça icon announced that he would fulfill his contract, which runs until 2021.
However, on Saturday the 33-year-old player was expected to be absent from the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper training center. The Argentine first has to catch up on the crown test, which he skipped due to the dispute with his club, before he can join his teammates. New manager Ronald Koeman has given the team a day off on Sunday. The rest of Barça stars had already started their preparation at the beginning of last week, while Messi worked hard on his march.
The conflict between Messi, who was willing to emigrate, and the club was settled on Friday night. The professional announced that he was staying because the club’s coach, Josep Bartomeu, had insisted on paying the transfer fee stipulated in the contract. According to media reports, this amounts to 700 million euros.
“It’s the club of my life”
On August 25, just eleven days after the 2: 8 debacle against FC Bayern in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Messi informed the club that he wanted to leave Barça in free trade after 20 years. He relied on a clause in his contract, which runs until 2021, that should allow him to unilaterally terminate. The term had already expired by then, as the club and La Liga assured. “I would never go to the pitch against Barça because it is the club I love,” he said in a billing interview to the “Goal” portal: “The one that has given me everything since I came here. It is the club of my life.”
But the club has no vision, no plan of how to succeed again, Messi said. “The truth is that there was no project or anything for a long time. They did things by halves and let a lot of time go by without sense.” As the hottest candidate for a Messi signing, Manchester City had been traded with former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola. The contract expires in 2021 and Messi will be on a free transfer.
He wanted his “last years as a footballer” to be happy. And: “Lately I have not found happiness in this club.” But now the new coach Ronald Koeman can “build his new project around Messi, at least for a year,” wrote the newspaper “Sport”: “It was a terrible nightmare for ten days.” A nightmare that is still being worked on quickly. FC Barcelona will start the league against FC Villareal on September 27 and will have to pay off quickly after a year without a title. Messi will help with that.
