[Sport]Messi stays at Barça and puts Bartomeu on the target: "I would never go to trial against the club of my life"

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The Argentine gives up his idea of leaving the entity right now before the prospect of facing a judicial process and points out that the management of the current board has been little less than a disaster

 

Three weeks after the extremely tough 2-8 against Bayern, Leo Messi finally broke his silence. And he did it to confirm that he remains at Barça. At least until June 30 of next year, which is when your contract with the entity ends. The burofax that he sent to the club on August 25, in which he announced his intention to leave the Camp Nou unilaterally, using a clause that according to the directive was no longer applicable, and even the statement of his father and representative, Jorge , addressed to LaLiga and in which he denied that his termination clause was still 700 million euros have now come to nothing. Although, yes, he considers that the management carried out by the Josep Maria Bartomeu board since 2015 has been little short of a disaster.

 

«First, because after the defeat in Lisbon it was very hard. We knew they were a very difficult opponent, but we didn't know that we were going to end that way, giving such a poor image for the club and for Barcelona. We gave a very bad image. It was wrong, I did not feel like anything. I wanted the time to pass and then go out to clarify everything, "said the Argentine goal.com when asked about his delay in speaking publicly. "I'm going to continue at the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the 700 million clause, that that's impossible, and then there was another way, which was to go to court. I would never go to trial against Barça because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived, it is the club of my life, I have made my life here, Barça gave me everything and I gave it everything, I never know It crossed my mind to take Barça to trial, ”explained the Barça star.

 

The prospect of being immersed in a judicial process with the club in which he has been playing for 20 years, 15 of them in the ranks of the Barcelona first team, has finally weighed much more than that boredom with the latest Barça sports projects which has been used as the trigger for his attempt to leave the club. Even, clearly, with the one introduced by Ronald Koeman, the new Barça coach, to whom the Argentine already transferred at the time that he was seen more outside than inside the entity.

 

"IT WAS THE TIME TO TAKE A STEP TO THE SIDE"

«I told the club, above all, the president, that I wanted to go. I've been telling him all year. He believed it was time to step aside. I believed that the club needed more young people, new people and I thought my time in Barcelona was over, feeling very sorry because I always said that I wanted to finish my career here. It was a very difficult year, I suffered a lot in training, in games and in the dressing room. Everything became very difficult for me and there came a time when I considered looking for new goals, new airs. It did not come because of the Champions League result against Bayern, the decision had been thinking about it for a long time. I told the president and well, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I wanted to go or if I wanted to stay and in the end he did not end up keeping his word, ”the Argentine reiterated.

 

His boredom at the last European setbacks of the Barça team, with the cruel climax of the defeat against Bayern as the last episode, would have even been exacerbated after the Barça coach communicated to Luis Suárez, with whom he gets along wonderfully so much inside as off the field, which did not fit into their plans. The prospect of facing the season without his good friend, who lives practically door to door with him in a coastal town very close to Barcelona, would have reinforced his intention to leave. Meanwhile, from Italy there is even speculation about the possibility that the Argentine's continuity comes from the hand of the Uruguayan forward, who has been in the orbit of Juventus in Turin in the last hours.

 

«I felt hurt by things that I heard from people, from journalism, from people questioning my Barça and saying things that I don't think I deserved. It also helped me to see who is who. This world of football that is very difficult and there are many very false people. This has happened has helped me to recognize many false people that I had in another consideration. It hurt me when my love for this club was questioned. No matter how much I go or stay, my love for Barça will never change, a Messi has emphasized who has been more than ever in the eye of the hurricane.