MADRID (AP) – Lionel Messi returned to education with Barcelona on Monday, just two weeks after declaring to the club that he wanted to leave.
After reluctantly changing his mind, Messi returned to the team to prepare for the new season, which he led from the rest of the team as he still wants to have a moment of control of the coronavirus before joining them.
Messi said last week that he was not satisfied with Barcelona but that he liked to stay rather than fight on the pitch with the club. Messi sought to let him loose but the club said the clause of the contract he was billing had already expired, so he had to stay in at least until the end of his contract in June 2021.
Messi told the club that he wanted to leave on August 25 and did not take the required coronavirus tests through the team a week ago, nor when his teammates returned to education last week.
The Spanish league starts this week and ends, but Barcelona will start their season until the end of the month with a home game against Villarreal.
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