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Barcelona insist that they will not negotiate for Messi to leave before his contract ends next year
Last Updated: 08/30/20 11:47 am
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Lionel Messi’s teammates at Barcelona and head coach Ronald Koeman arrive for coronavirus tests at Barcelona’s training complex, but Messi didn’t show up
Lionel Messi has failed to show up for coronavirus tests at Barcelona’s training complex as he continues his battle to leave the club.
Messi’s decision not to attend means that he will not be able to participate in Ronald Koeman’s first training session as Barcelona’s new coach on Monday afternoon.
The 33-year-old is understood to have warned the club in advance via Burofax, a certified delivery form provided by Spain’s postal service, that he would not be present.
Messi has told Barcelona that he wants to leave this summer and has requested a meeting with the board to find a solution.
Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman arrives on Sunday for coronavirus tests
Messi wants to exercise a clause in his contract that allows him to leave the club for free at the end of each season.
However, Barcelona are convinced that they will not negotiate to allow Messi to leave before the end of his contract, which expires next June.
They also argue that Messi’s contract clause has expired and that the only way he will be allowed to leave the Camp Nou is if a buyer pays his € 700 million buyout clause.
Messi’s lawyers say that Barcelona should show good faith and respect the clause that allows him to leave for nothing because the season is extended until August, beyond the deadline for him to exercise the clause.
If Messi manages to negotiate his departure from Barcelona, Manchester City is currently the favorite to sign him.
The six-time Ballon d’Or winner to leave the Camp Nou comes after Barcelona ended the season without a trophy for the first time in 12 years and ended the campaign with a humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Midfielder Arturo Vidal greets his arrival for the tests
Analysis: Encounter to consolidate Barça’s departure
Kaveh Solhekol from Sky Sports:
2:38 Transfer Show panelists discuss Lionel Messi’s request to meet with the Barcelona board
“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’
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
Spanish soccer journalist Álvaro Montero on Sky Sports News:
3:18 Gary Cotterill of Sky Sports News confirms that Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is on vacation in Barcelona and will have to quarantine him when he returns
“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 TV show, they said Manchester United could be an option. A lot of people in Italy say Inter [Milan] 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.
“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.”
Carra: Man City with Messi ‘not unbeatable’
Jamie Carragher admitted that he would love to see Lionel Messi play in the Premier League, but said he doesn’t think the move will make Manchester City invincible.
“I would love to see Messi in the Premier League,” said Jamie Carragher Sky sports.
“I want to look at it and I want to analyze it and look at it in Monday night football. The only place he can really go to is Manchester City with the history he has with the manager and with the financial clout the club has. “
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