04/09/2020 - 13:25
Clarín.com
sports
A week and a half after sending a burofax to the Camp Nou offices to notify Barcelona of his departure from the club, Lionel Messi announced that he will continue until June 2021 and
will fulfill his contract
.
In the interview he gave to
Goal.com
, he said that a year ago he had been telling President Josep Maria Bartomeu that he would leave at the end of the season and that the burofax was the way out he found but that he never thought of bringing a trial to the entity in which it was formed.
These are his best lines:
"I thought and we were sure that I was free, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not and
now they hold on to the fact that I did not say it before June 10
when it turns out that on June 10 we were competing for the League in the middle of the virus this shit and this disease that altered all the dates. And this is the reason why I am going to continue in the club ".
"Now 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
this is impossible
, and then there was another way, which was to go to trial."
"I would never go to court against Barça because it is the club that I love, that 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,
never It crossed my mind to take Barça to trial
”.
"I wanted a winning project and win titles with the club to continue expanding the legend of Barcelona at the level of titles. And the truth is that
there has been no project or nothing for a long time
, they are juggling and covering holes as they go by things. As I said before, I always thought about the welfare of my family and the club. "
"I told the club, above all, the president, that I wanted to leave.
I have been telling them all year
. I thought it was time to step aside. I believed that the club needed more young people, new people and I thought that my time in Barcelona had ended feeling very sorry because I always said that I wanted to finish my career here ".
"I wanted to go because I thought about living my last years of football happily. The latter
I did not find happiness within the club
."
"I was going to look for new goals and new challenges. And tomorrow I could come back, because here in Barcelona I have everything. My son, my family, grew up here and are from here. There was nothing wrong with leaving at that time.
I needed it, the club needed it and it was good for everyone
”.
“
The burofax was to make it official
in some way.
Throughout the year I had been telling the president that I wanted to leave, that the time had come to seek new illusions and new directions in my career.
He told me all the time: 'We'll talk, no, this and that,' but nothing.
To put it in some way, the president did not give me 'ball' what he was saying.
Sending the burofax was making it official that I wanted to go and that I was free and the optional year I was not going to use it and I wanted to go.
It was not to make a mess, or to go against the club, but the way to make it official because my decision had been made. "
"But apart from that, the president always told me 'when the season ends, you decide if you stay or leave', he never set a date, and well, it was simply to make the club official that he did not follow, but not to get into a fight because I did not want to fight me with the club ”.
"When I communicated this to my wife and children, it
was a barbarous drama
. The whole family was crying, my children did not want to leave Barcelona, nor did they want to change schools."
"All this time it has been hard for everyone. I was clear about what I wanted, I had assumed it and said it. My wife with all the pain of her soul supported and accompanied me ...".
"
Thiago heard something on TV
and found out something and asked. He didn't want to know anything about being able to leave, having to live in a new school or make new friends. He cried to me and said 'let's not go', I repeat that it was hard, the true. It was understandable. It happened to me. It's very difficult to make a decision. "
MFV
