Lionel Messi will miss the 2020-2021 season to leave FC Barcelona as a loose agent this summer.
The saga of messi’s move to Barcelona continues, as the captain is adamant to leave the club before the new campaign. Following the humiliating 8–2 loss to Bayern Munich in the 2019–20 Champions League quarter-finals, Messi informed the Culés that he was looking to leave Nou Camp with one remaining year in his current contract.
Although he thought that he could only provoke the clause of his contract that would let him leave loose this summer, Barcelona kept the clause expired in June, regardless of the extension of the 2019-20 edition. Messi, who has been related to The League team for about two decades, has been linked to a move to Manchester City, as it is understood that Pep Guardiola’s team has already presented Messi with a five-year contract.
However, Manchester City still does not know whether it can point to Messi for the loose or provoke his $826 million termination clause. In an effort to pressure Barcelona to leave the component loose, Messi allegedly skipped the coronavirus control that took a position On Sunday in his education. While the entire first team went through control, it is understood that Messi is the only absentee.
Sources connected to Barcelona have informed the ESPN online sports page that Barcelona is willing to let Messi pass as a loose agent, provided that he renounces his seasonal salary and does not signal a new club until the summer of 2021, when his existing agreement with the report also revealed that Messi’s legal team continues to argue that the player unilaterally cancelled his contract in Barcelona and that in order not to compromise the claim, Messi did not show up for the pre-season of Barcelona that began on Monday. .
Previously, rumors in Spain claimed that Messi’s $826 million termination clause was no longer active, creating additional confusion. To put an end to the false reports, La Liga said in an official that Messi’s agreement still existed and would not facilitate his registration with some other club without the clause being paid.
In the past it has been reported that Barcelona’s new coach, Ronald Koeman, has met Liverpool striker Sadio Mane as Messi’s long-term replacement at Camp Nou, and senegalese are in a position to leave Anfield.
Messi, who made his first-team debut for Barcelona in 2004, has scored more than six hundred goals for the club and taken him to the laurels, adding 4 Champions League trophies and 10 League titles.