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Luis Figo was “surprised” to see Lionel Messi try to leave Barcelona and has suggested that he is no longer committed to the club.
Lionel Messi will have his reasons and reasons for wanting to leave Barcelona and nothing will change his mind, according to former club player Luis Figo.
The six-time Ballon d’Or winner stunned the world in August when he informed Baçca of his intention to leave the club he has been with for two decades.
He intended to activate a clause in his contract to retire with a free transfer, but the validity of such a stipulation became murky as last season was extended until August by the coronavirus pandemic.
But Figo, who made a surprising and controversial step from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000, believes that Messi will now have his mind set on leaving Catalonia.
“I saw about Messi and his attempt to leave Barcelona this summer like all football fans: expectant and surprised,“he told a leading sports outlet in Spain.
“He will have your motives and reasons for making that decision. I don’t know what happened beforehand.
“All clubs want a player like Messi, but then it depends on factors such as the current financial situation of the club, the money it will cost the club in salary, the will of the player …
“But in general, in life, if you don’t want to be somewhere, in the end there is nothing that can make you change your mind.”
Messi, who will become a free agent at the end of the campaign, is off to a disappointing start to the 2020-21 season.
The 33-year-old was unable to assist in a goal or score in open play in six LaLiga games before last weekend’s 5-2 victory over Real Betis, when he also scored from the penalty spot.
He started that game on the bench, the first time it’s happened in the league since September 2019, but Ronald Koeman has since revealed that Messi was charging a punch.
Messi is now in international service with Argentina and played the full 90 minutes of Thursday’s 1-1 World Cup qualifying tie with Paraguay, with a goal disallowed by VAR in that match.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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