[Sport]Leo Messi communicates to FC Barcelona that he wants to leave now

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The Argentine forward informs the Barça club that he intends to leave the team for free this summer, taking advantage of a release clause of his contract that expired on June 10.

 

And Leo Messi was fed up.

 

The best player Barcelona ever had told the club of his life on Tuesday that he wants to leave now. Free. He has done it without having to speak. Through their lawyers and via burofax. Symptom of boredom and decrepitude that has engulfed the club. And that the legal battle will be very tough from now on.

 

The footballer still has one more year on his contract. It ends on June 30, 2021. But Messi considers that the clause by which he could leave the entity should still remain in force. In Barcelona they maintain that it expired on June 10. If he wanted to leave, he should have always said so before then. It is what the signed contract sti[CENSORED]tes, "they maintain in the Barça entity, which assures this newspaper that the aforementioned burofax only alludes to legal aspects. However, the fact that the season has been extended until this month of August due to the pandemic has led the striker to explore that exit route of uncertain validity.

 

The Bartomeu government, in any case, does not intend to let him go that way. And it continues to refer to its termination clause, which amounts to 700 million euros. The Barça legal services were already working this Tuesday on the global response to the coup. For now, Barcelona responded to Messi with another burofax. And they reminded him that he still has one year to go.

 

Despite the fact that the Barcelona board had already been waiting for days for Messi to take the step, the divorce will not be easy. As much as in the last hours several were already the managers who were running in favor of the departure of the Argentine, a footballer who costs the club about 100 million euros gross per year.

 

Messi, who has not played for a club other than Barcelona during his sporting career, who came to the city as a 13-year-old boy, considers the situation to be completely unbearable. Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom the forward blames for much of this terrifying end, will go down in history as the president who pushed Messi to the starting gate. With football still in his boots. Without having been able to complete an unparalleled sports career at home. And with the feeling of having wasted a good part of its fullness. His last game with the Barça shirt, yes, it could be the embarrassment of Lisbon (8-2).

 

                                                                                             

 

Between the ages of 24 and 33, Messi could only win one Champions League, that of Berlin in 2015. It was there, in front of the Marathon gate of the Olympic Stadium, that Barça's golden generation set out to begin its decline. Slow, but relentless. With the Bartomeu government folded its arms. Unable to act. Unable to offer new winning projects. In memory, the falls of Paris (4-0) and Turin (3-0) with Luis Enrique. The collapses of Rome (3-0) and Anfield (4-0) with Valverde. To culminate in the depressing picture of Da Luz.

 

"Now we must have a cool head and see what is best for the club. Koeman already told him that he wanted him to stay. And Messi has a contract yet to be fulfilled, “sources of directors of a Barcelona that are trying to stop a blow that may already be definitive for its president cried yesterday.

 

THE APPLAUSE OF PUYOL

Nobody won as many titles as Messi at Barça (34). Nobody scored that many goals (634 goals). Only Xavi Hernández played more than him (737, for the midfielder's 767). What difference does it make. Once Koeman telephoned the Argentine emotional crutch, Luis Suárez, to inform him that he had to leave the club, Messi, already convinced that everything was over, the few reasons he still had to resist were exhausted. He already warned the Dutch coach last week that he saw no other solution than his own departure.

 

Bartomeu, in his last conjuring trick, refused to resign after 8-2 and took cover by announcing that he would call elections for next March. Even knowing that Messi would hardly be willing to continue being part of an already unbearable comedy.

 

Meanwhile, Carles Puyol, another historical emblem of Barcelona, positioned himself on the Argentine's side on his social networks ("Respect and admiration, Leo. All my support, friend"). Suárez, who feels despised by the current leaders, could only applaud the former captain.

 

Bartomeu is now exposed to the social mass overturning in a motion of censure that puts an end to his mandate. There were already fans who came yesterday around the Camp Nou to show their indignation.

Meanwhile, Barcelona will try to win the battle of a story that Messi has decided to put an end to.