[Sport] Breathe easy: Bartomeu said that Lionel Messi will renew and retire at Barcelona

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The president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, assured this Tuesday that the club has "the obligation to renew" Lionel Messi and was calm about the continuation of the Argentine in the Barça team, after the storm of recent days.

"Normally we do not explain the conversations with the players but it is evident that we have the obligation to renew him," Bartomeu said Tuesday in an interview with the Catalan radio Rac1.

"He is the best player in history. He has many years of football left and regarding the information that has come out in recent days, I will say that Cadena Ser always appears here," added the Barça president.

Last week, Cadena Ser radio stated that the Argentine star had paralyzed talks for his renewal and that he was considering leaving Barça when his contract ended in 2021.

 

 

According to the program "El larguero" of that station, the Catalan captain "is tired of seeing how information, leaks are attributed to him" and of seeing the time go by without "the winning project" that he was promised.

"I see Leo calmly, he has said many times that he wants to retire at Barça," Bartomeu said on Rac1 on Tuesday, insisting that he sees him "retiring at Barça with another president (Bartomeu ends his term in 2021) because he will continue longer. "

Bartomeu assured that he spoke to his captain for the last time last Saturday.

"I speak to the players very often. Not only with Leo, but also with the group, especially with the captains. Also lately we have many issues to talk about, "concluded the Catalan president.