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“I will stay at the club to enter into a legal dispute,” Messi told the Goal website, claiming that the team had acted in bad faith.
By Tariq Panja
Lionel Messi remains angry at the Barcelone.Il is still frustrated by Barcelona, but in a sudden and dramatic change, he said on Friday that he was not in a position to go to war with Barcelona and that he would stay after all.
In a resolution he announced in an interview with the Goal website, Messi said he had withdrawn a letter uttering his goal of leaving Barcelona and staying at the football club he called home his professional career.
The resolution represents a 180-degree turn for Messi, who on August 25 informed the club in writing that he would exercise a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave the club unilaterally, in addition to saving the team the embarrassment of wasting his most beloved. and valuable asset that receives a move-in fee.
But it may not do much good to solve months of unease in Barcelona, a downward spiral that has worried training changes, board intrigues and public disputes. The club reached its lowest point with a humble 8–2 defeat at the hands of German champions Bayern Munich.in the Champions League quarter-finals last month.
The announcement of his goal of staying came hours after Messi’s father and agent Jorge gave the impression of doubling the player’s stated goal of leaving, and after the Spanish league declared that a 700 million euro termination clause in Messi’s contract was valid.set the tone for a terrible legal war between the player and the club, and Messi, in his interview with Goal, gave the impression of turning back that he faced Barcelona on the court.
“I would go to war with the club in my life,” Messi said.
But Messi’s resolution and the questionable language he used even when he showed his resolve to remain in Barcelona put even more pressure on the club’s besathed president, Josep Maria Bartomeu.Messi said Bartomeu, already tense about a series of horrific dramas in convention halls, broke his promise to let it go at the end of last season.
“I wasn’t satisfied and I looked to leave,” Messi said in Goal’s interview.”I haven’t been allowed to do this and I’ll stay at the club so I don’t get into a legal dispute.”The bar run by Bartomeu is a disaster.
He added: “I devised and was sure that I was on the loose to leave; the president said that by the end of the season, I could make a decision whether or not I stayed.Now they cling to the fact that I didn’t say until June 10, when it turns out that on June 10, we were competing for La Liga in the midst of this lousy coronavirus and this disease has replaced the whole season.
This is Messi’s first time replacing the course.The striker caused hysteria in his home country in 2016 when he left the national team, which brought out his frustration with the federation, but less than two months later, amid calls from his teammates, Enthusiasts and even the country’s president, Messi replaced his mind.
In the existing situation, Barcelona and Messi had agreed on a clause that would allow them to leave without charging the payment of the move as long as he communicated their preference to leave before the end of the season, but the devastation occurred in qualifying football through the La pandemic meant that the Spanish season ended until months after the date stipulated in the agreement.Messi complained that Bartomeu did respect the spirit of the deal and insisted that Messi stay unless the suitors paid the full termination clause, which Messi called “impossible.”
Messi said that, given his relationship with the club and his supporters, he may not continue with the concept of filing a damaging lawsuit to force himself to leave the club, but will stay to collect the pieces as Barcelona prepares for reconstruction.after a deastrous year on and off the field.
A new manager, Ronald Koeman, has already been hired and several senior players, coupled with Messi’s close friend Luis Suarez, have been told they don’t have much time at Camp Nou.
Koeman, appointed after the humiliation against Bayern, had spoken to Messi some time before the player surprised the club by uttering his intention to leave.Reports in Spain at the time warned that the new Dutch coach, a former Barcelona player, had warned Messi that he would no longer get a special remedy, a threat, he warned himself, that he made Messi more decide to leave.
Instead, the two will have to forge a complicated alliance for at least a year and seek to pull Barcelona out of a crisis that had deepened in recent seasons. The German champions arrived here after similar Champions League capitations against Rome and Liverpool.Messi said the troubles had motivated his resolve to seek a new challenge in the later years of his career.Messi was 28 when the team won their last European Cup.
“I’ve looked for more and I need to compete at the highest level, win titles, play the Champions League.You can win or lose because it’s so hard, but you have to compete,” he said.
The hypothesis was developing that Messi would sign for Manchester City, subsidized through the brother of Abu Dhabi’s ruler, the England team, led by Messi’s former mentor Pep Guardiola, is one of the few in world football that can rent to Messi.and provide you with the platform for the good fortune you aspire to at all times.But despite all the communications of an exit, Messi’s inextricable link to Barcelona meant a departure, whatever the circumstances, would have been shocking.
Messi has been a member of the team for 20 years, since moving there at thirteen from Argentina.
Yours at the time reflected that of your club.Messi’s list of honours extends to 10 Spanish leagues, 4 Champions League trophies and six World Player of the Year awards.Your individual file count, if any, is more noticeable.
He has scored more goals than anyone in La Liga history and also holds the record for assists.He has won more Golden Balls, the trophy awarded the year to the most productive player in the world, than anyone who has won more than any other player in Barcelona, has scored more hat-tricks and doubles than any other player.
While Messi has become the first player of his generation, then, perhaps, in history, Barcelona has possibly become the most popular sports team in the world.For nearly a decade, the club has been the popular gold of football.
But as many stars, such as Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol, who covered up Messi in this excellent career, grew older and eventually moved or retired, the club made a number of mistakes, spending more and more money on talent.season after season. The club will now have to account for the charge of those mistakes, and Messi has a star player who is a prisoner of his gold contract.
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