Barcelona Lionel Messi will take an extended holiday that will see him miss Tuesday’s La Liga match against Eibar, according to Sam Marsden and Moises Llorens of ESPN FC.
Messi will be on the squad when Barca faces Huesca on 3 January.
Messi’s seven los Angeles League goals are the club’s memorable highs, and Ansu Fati, the second top scorer, remains absent while recovering from surgery from a meniscus injury to his left knee.
The Eibar party can give Barcelona one of the things that’s going to happen.
No history of world football in the summer has been bigger than Messi’s play saga. The six-time Golden Ball winner tried to cause a termination clause in his contract, only for club officials to say that the deadline for doing so had expired. As a result, he had little selection left to remain at Camp Nou for the 2020–2021 season.
Marsden and Llorens wrote that the 33-year-old “hadn’t even started conversations about a renewal” and was eligible to sign a pre-contract agreement with a new club starting in January.
Barcelona is in the process of electing a new president, and Messi has naturally been at the heart of considerations of some of the aspiring to influence the club’s members.
While Messi is a mythical figure in Catalonia, some have argued that a blank breakup can gain advantages for either party. Barca would get much-needed monetary relief as they see a giant deficit and would have more facilities to pass younger players at messi, meanwhile, he would probably spend the rest of his career with the European giant best placed to compete for national and continental honours.
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