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The 33-year-old has requested a personal meeting with the Barça hierarchy to discuss a solution to the impasse on his transfer request
Last Updated: 08/30/20 9:04 am
Lionel Messi wants to leave Barcelona after almost two decades at the club
Barcelona are convinced that they will not negotiate to allow Lionel Messi to leave the cub before the end of his contract next year.
The 33-year-old Argentine has requested a personal meeting with the Barcelona hierarchy to discuss a solution to the impasse on his transfer request, Sky Sports News can confirm.
Messi asked to activate a termination clause that would end his contract – which runs until next June – and allow him to leave for free this summer, but the club has said that the clause has already expired.
However, Messi’s lawyers argue that, in the spirit of the agreement and in good faith, the clause remains active after the final rescheduled on August 23, which was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
3:15 Gary Cotterill, from Sky Sports News, analyzes how Spanish newspapers report on the possible departure of Lionel Messi from Barcelona.
Manchester City, coached by former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola, are seen as favorites to sign Messi, who has a € 700 million buyout clause.
Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan are said to be preparing offers in an attempt to persuade him not to meet Guardiola and his international colleague Sergio Agüero.
Messi has not spoken in public since the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals on August 14 at the end of a difficult season, in which the club ended without a title for the first time. since 2007-08. .
1:16 Micah Richards, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher give their opinion on the possible transfer of Lionel Messi from Barcelona to Man City.
Analysis: Encounter to consolidate Barça’s departure
2:38 Lionel Messi has requested a meeting with the Barcelona board to discuss the Transfer Show.
Kaveh Solhekol from Sky Sports:
“I think the situation is that Messi wants a meeting with the Barcelona board to reiterate his desire that he wants to go.
“Barcelona’s position is not going to change. Messi and his representatives believe that there is a clause in his contract that means he can leave for nothing this summer.”
I think the message he will receive at that meeting from Barcelona is ‘you are not going anywhere for free, if you want to leave we believe that your contract says that there is a termination clause of 700 million euros, that is what is needed’. “
Insight: ‘The meeting did not go well for Messi’
0:58 Spanish soccer journalist Álvaro Montero says Lionel Messi disagreed with the plans of new Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman after calling for him to leave the club.
Spanish soccer expert Álvaro Montero told Sky Sports News that the seeds of Messi’s decision were sown when he met new boss Ronald Koeman last week:
“The main thing is that last Friday’s meeting with Ronald Koeman was not as good as they expected for a football club like Barcelona.
“The meeting with Koeman did not go well, in Messi opinion.
“Koeman told him that he didn’t have, for example, players like Arturo Vidal or Luis Suárez. And Messi didn’t like that.
“The way Koeman treats him in the media and the way he has expressed his way of working in Barcelona didn’t like Messi, so I think that was the situation.”
Analysis: Man City is Messi’s best option
2:10 Spanish soccer journalist Álvaro Montero believes Manchester City will be Lionel Messi’s best option after telling Barcelona that he wants to leave the Spanish club.
Spanish soccer journalist Álvaro Montero on Sky Sports News:
“Manchester City is the best option for the money, for the Premier League and for Pep Guardiola. Put it all together and it’s a good situation for Messi.
“Tonight in Spain, on a television program, they said that Manchester United could be an option. A lot of people in Italy are saying that Inter could be an option. I don’t think so because there is a difference in the financial situation of the Premier League and Italy, France, Spain or Germany.
“Of course the Premier League is also perhaps the best league in the world so I think the Premier League plus Manchester City plus Guardiola is a good cocktail altogether.
Messi could head to Manchester City to meet former coach Pep Guardiola
“We know that the union of Guardiola and Messi in Barcelona eight or nine years ago was incredible. Perhaps the best team in the world. I would say that there is a great possibility for Manchester City and I would say that they are the first in this.” race.”
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