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FC Barcelona: Why Messi threatens (really) to leave

2020-07-04T19:17:48.834Z


Cadena SER dropped a bomb, revealing that Lionel Messi had frozen negotiations leading to an extension of his contract. The Argentine would be unhappy with the turn things are taking at Barça.


Notice of storm. Or rather a tsunami. Not even a month ago, it was announced that negotiations were underway between FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi for a ninth extension of the idol's contract, in the form of 1 year + 1 year optional which linked Messi to his club forever until 2023. FC Barcelona was then fighting with Real Mardid for the title, still in the Champions League race, and its president Josep Bartomeu dreamed of finishing his term (the elections will take place in a an) with the traditional photo showing the star Lionel Messi initialing a new contract. But on Friday, the news fell: Messi froze the negotiations, and is therefore approaching a departure.

⚽ Así te ha contado @ManuCarreno la noticia con la que hemos abierto @ElLarguero

The idea of ​​Messi ahora mismo es terminar su Contrato in 2021 y abandonar el Fútbol Club Barcelona pic.twitter.com/mStYSeYdQQ

- El Larguero (@ellarguero) July 2, 2020

Annoyed by extra-sports problems

More than the current sporting difficulties of Barça, which has already dropped six points in the title race since the recovery and has four lengths behind Real, Lionel Messi criticizes the club for its extra-sporting difficulties. Already, according to AS , he would not have digested the non-arrival of Neymar last summer, with whom he is very close, and would criticize the club for not having done everything to bring back his friend and former teammate, who preferred Antoine Griezmann, whose relationship with the Pulga seems rather cold or even freezing.

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Then Messi did not understand the ouster of Ernesto Valverde last January, replaced by Quique Setien who seems, in addition, to have lost at least part of his locker room since. The statements of Eric Abidal, sports director of Barça, who accused some players, without naming a name, of having caused the departure of Valverde are all the less well passed and prompted the Argentine gave a long interview to Mundo Deportivo . "I don't know what went through his head, but I answered because I felt attacked. I felt he was attacking the players. [...] I could not let the sports director attack me like that. You have to give names, because otherwise, you dirty everyone and fuel rumors that are not true. "Complicated negotiations over lower wages during confinement, along with" Barçagate "with I3 Ventures (FC Barcelona is accused of having signed a partnership with the company to attack via opponents President Bartomeu's social networks as well as some players, including Messi), have also altered the determination of the Argentinian to stay in Catalonia.

Lionel Messi's fastest goal with FC Barcelona

Many contenders

Lionel Messi therefore wishes to see how things will evolve within this club in the midst of a sports and extra-sports crisis before making his decision. The possible arrival of Xavi, with whom Messi played between 2004 and 2015, as a new coach could calm things down, as well as future sporting successes such as a victory in the championship, you never know, or in the Champions League in August. But enticed by the possibility of a departure of the star, many clubs are rushing to try to convince Lionel Messi to join their rank. Rosario, his childhood club is already out of the woods through his vice-president, but we also know that David Beckham dreams of the Argentinian as the gondola of his new franchise in MLS, Inter Miami. Manchester City also allegedly tried in February during the first crisis between Messi and Barça, relying on the presence of Pep Guardiola, former FC Barcelona, ​​at the head of his team, to convince the attacker to come .

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Source: lefigaro

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