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Lionel Messi has decided to stay in Barcelona in the 2020/2021 season: “I was sure I could go for free”
The Argentine explained that he chose to stay at FC Barcelona only because president Josep Maria Bartomeu told him that he can leave only if a club pays the huge buyout clause of 700 million euros.
“I look forward and I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, fight in the Champions League. You can win or lose, it is very difficult, but you have to fight. At least let’s fight, let’s not fall, as it was in Rome, Liverpool or Lisbon. Everything made me think about the decision to leave.
I was sure that I could go freely, the president always told me that at the end of each season I could decide whether to stay or not. Now it is based on that I did not say that before June 10, when I was fighting for La Liga and in the middle of this terrible pandemic, which affected the entire season.
So I decided to stay at the club. I will continue in this club, because the president told me that the only way out is to pay the 700 million euro clause, which is impossible.
There was another option, to have a lawsuit with the club, but I would never go to court against Barcelona, because it is the club that I love and that gave me everything. It’s the club of my life, this is where I made my life. It never occurred to me to do that. “Messi told Goal.
Messi’s decision comes at the end of extremely tense days between his father and his agent. George and the president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Argentine insisted on releasing his contract, but both the directors of the Catalan club and La Liga told him that he has an active termination clause, valued at 700 million euros.
The decision was made today, after a new meeting between his father, George, and the president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu.
In this way, the Argentine footballer, who has won the Ballon d’Or six times, wants to avoid a sad separation from the only club he has played for so far, but also any legal problem that could have arisen in the case of a transfer. without the agreement of the Catalans.
- 731 games, 634 goals and 285 assists reunited Messi, in the first team of Barcelona, from 2005 until now
- June 30, 2021 is the date on which the Argentine’s current agreement with FC Barcelona expires
Manchester City have to wait to bring Messi
Lionel Messi and Manchester City had already agreed to a transfer, but only in the event that the Argentine could be brought in for free or for a reasonable transfer amount.
The contract that City Football Group would have proposed to Messi would have had a salary of 700 million euros for the next five seasons. Of these, the first three were to be spent in Manchester City and the last two in New York City, in MLS.
Tags: Manchester city , Barcelona , the league , Lionel messi , Jorge Messi
