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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In a resolution he announced in an interview with the Goal website, Messi said he had withdrawn a letter uttering his goal of leaving Barcelona and staying at the football club he called home his professional career.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 sudden change of course for Messi, who on 25 August informed the club in writing that he would exercise a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave the club unilaterally, and also spares the team the shame of wasting his beloved and valuable asset that receives a move-in fee.
But it may not do much good to solve months of unrest in Barcelona, a downward spiral that has worried training changes, intrigues in the boardroom 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 horrible 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 resolve and the questionable language he used even as he showed his resolve to remain at Barcelona put even more pressure on the beleaguered club president Josep Maria Bartomeu. Messi said that Bartomeu, already strained by a series of horrible dramas in the convention halls, breached his promise to let him pass at the end of last season.
“I wasn’t satisfied and I looked to leave,” Messi said in Goal’s interview.”I have not been allowed to do this under any circumstances and I will stay at the club so as not to enter into a legal dispute.”bartomeu-run club 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 terrible 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 collecting the moving payment as long as he communicated his preference to leave before the end of the season. The pandemic meant that the Spanish season ended 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 pay 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 coach, Ronald Koeman, has already been hired and several senior players, in addition to 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 with Barcelona made a departure, whatever the circumstances, 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 honors includes 10 Spanish championships, 4 Champions League trophies and six World Player of the Year awards.His individual record, if any, is more remarkable.
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 world’s most productive player, which no one has won more.than any other player in Barcelona, scoring more hat-tricks and doubles than any other player.
While Messi has become the first player of his generation, then, perhaps, in history, Barcelona have arguably become the most popular sports team in the world. For almost a decade, the club has been the popular gold of soccer.
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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