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One of the best footballers in the world on Friday Lionel messi He broke the silence and declared that he would stay at Barcelona for at least one more season, where he spent more than 20 years.
The 33-year-old has known for a long time that he wants new challenges and the desire to change teams is not just about the famous 2-8 defeat in the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the Bayern Munich team.
It came to light about 10 days ago when information leaked that Messi had sent a fax to the president of Barcelona, Josep Bartomeu, and announced his intention to leave.
However, as L. Messi said exclusively for the Goal portal, it was only a wish to officially announce it, since his previous conversations with the club president ended in a stalemate.
“I told the club, including the president, that I wanted to leave. I told him that all year. I thought it was time to go, the club needed younger players and my time at Barcelona was over. I was sorry because I always said that I wanted to finish my career at this club. It was a very difficult year, I suffered a lot in training sessions, games, changing rooms. Things got very difficult for me and the time came when I started thinking about new ambitions. It’s not because of the Champions League match with Bayern, because I’ve been thinking about that decision for a long time. I said that to the president, and he always said that I could decide at the end of the season, but he didn’t keep his word.
That fax sent about the desire to leave made the decision official. All year I have told the President that I want to go, that it is time to seek new challenges. He always said: we will talk, but not now. Still, nothing ever happened. The president did not keep his word. When I sent that fax, I made that decision official. This was not done to confuse or oppose the club, but to be official because my decision was made.
If I hadn’t sent it, they probably would have forgotten about it and pretended nothing had happened. They say I didn’t say I wanted to leave before June 10, when the contract term expired, but I repeat, we were in the middle of all the competition and then it was not the right time. Apart from that, the president has always said that at the end of the season I will be able to decide whether to stay or not, because he never set a date. The announcement of the exit by fax made it clear to the club that he was not keeping his word and that it was certainly not made to fight Barcelona because I never wanted to do it, ”said Messi.
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