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Argentino announces continuity in the Catalan club.
Argentine international Lionel Messi announced on Friday that he will continue one more season with Barcelona, a dozen days after dropping a bomb on the club, announcing his desire to leave.
“I would never go to the pitch against the club of my life, so I will stay at Barcelona,” Lionel Messi said in an interview with Goal.com, stating his intention to fulfill the remaining contract year in 2020/21.
Messi added that “he told the president that he wanted to leave”, not only now, but “throughout the year.” “I thought that my time at Barcelona, unfortunately, was over, because I always wanted to finish my career at the club. It was a very difficult year, in which I suffered a lot in training, games and in the dressing room,” said the Argentine international.
Also according to Messi, the president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, would have told him that he could leave the club at the end of the 2019/20 season. “The president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I wanted to go or stay, but in the end, he did not keep his word,” said the Argentine.
Messi, “Bola de Ouro” on six occasions and “Bota de Ouro” on so many occasions, communicated to Barcelona on August 25 their intention to leave, free of charge, as they had not started the preseason work of the team now led by Ronald Koeman.
Messi showed his intention to leave the club days after the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich, in the quarterfinals of the 2018/19 Champions League, and the club’s decision to dispense with Luis Suárez, Rakitic and Arturo Vidal.
Last season, Barcelona did not win a title, something that had not happened since 2007/08, in a year that began with Ernesto Valverde at the helm and ended with Quique Sétien.
For two decades at the club, Messi has long been the best scorer in the history of FC Barcelona, with a total of 643 goals in 731 games, and has won a total of 33 titles for the Catalan club, including four Champions.
Since 2004/05 in the main team, the Argentine has also won three editions of the Club World Cup, three of the European Super Cup, 10 of the Spanish League, six of the Copa del Rey and seven of the Spanish Super Cup.
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