BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Barcelona enthusiasts breathed a collective sigh of relief a day after Lionel Messi said he would wait a year in his preference to seek good fortune elsewhere.
The wonderful Argentine Messi announced this Friday that he told the club he was looking to leave, he would see the last season on his contract, while the 33-year-old striker said he would stay because he was looking to avoid the lousy option.to go to court to ask for his release.
“He Stays” splashed a huge photo of Messi on the cover of Barcelona’s daily match on Saturday.
“As a Barca fan, I’m celebrating the news,” said Roberto Ciervo, a 72-year-old retiree.”They controlled to a bitter end. Something no one, adding to himself, sought after his career at Barca.”
While enthusiasts are divided on whether to blame the player or club leaders for the close separation, Messi’s immaculate reputation in the Spanish city has been affected.
Some fans, such as Deer, have said they sense their resolve to leave after the team’s mess in the Champions League in recent seasons, which reached a low point with a very good 8–2 loss to Bayern Munich in the final quarter-finals.Month.
Messi said in an interview with Goal.com that “throughout the year I had told the president that I wanted to leave, that the time had come to look for new goals and new instructions in my career.
Although he criticized the team’s inability to compete at the highest point of the season, he kept the bomb he sought to leave until the Champions League debacle and his way of telling Barcelona – and his enthusiasts – it may not have been colder: sending a buxofax, a qualified document in Spain similar to a telegram, to the club’s office.
This has infuriated some faithful in Barcelona.
“I followed the whole story. And I think it touched things a bit,” said Noelia Lagarés, a 44-year-old fitness worker. “If he had to go already, he deserved to have said it earlier, like in January.” He said that he felt part of the family circle because he had spent his life here, so why send a burofax ?, or he did not receive an intelligent recommendation or he did not know how to do it in a more pleasant way, as we would have liked. The fans.”
Barcelona starts the season in 3 weeks by welcoming Villarreal in a Camp Nou still une enthusiasts for COVID-19, so Messi will hear the crowd’s verdict, for now.
He had to suspend his plans to leave after Barcelona refused to let it go unless his $700 million ($829 million) termination clause was activated.
Barcelona limited its reaction to Messi’s announcement to two tweets.On the first Friday, an excerpt from his Goal.com said, “I’m going to give it my all.My love for Barca is never going to falter.”This followed a video clip saturday of him scoring the winning purpose in the 2009 Club World Cup final.
Messi has yet to work out with his teammates with new coach Ronald Koeman and he didn’t show up on Saturday either.
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