BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Lionel Messi needs to put his dispute with Barcelona and has asked the club and its enthusiasts to come along.
In his interview for the moment, just because he was driving unsuccessfully for an off-season move, Messi said that Barcelona would be more powerful if everyone worked in combination to help the club succeed.
“After so many disagreements, I’d like to put an end to all this,” he told the Daily Sport. “We will have to join as fans of Barcelona and that the most productive is to come”.
In an interview to be published entirely on Wednesday, Messi said the only way for the club to achieve its goals is to stay “united and paddling in the same direction. “
Messi told Barcelona that he wanted to leave after the team’s 8–2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals in August, but ended up staying in a legal war with the ‘club of my life’.
Messi has continued to criticize the club’s leaders since his decision to stay and said he did not like the direction the club was taking.
“I will assume duty for my mistakes, ” he said. ” They happened, that with the aim of making Barcelona bigger and stronger. “
Messi said he was looking to send a “message” to club members and the association, saying that “if at some point I annoyed any of them for something I did or said, they should not doubt that I was thinking of the most productive thing for the club. “
Messi scored a goal in Barcelona’s 4-0 win over Villareal in their first Spanish league game on Sunday. Barcelona Celta Vigo for their league match so far on Thursday.
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