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Leo Messi's aspiration is to play for a team other than Barça next season 2020-2021 and he will have no problem obtaining the transfer from FIFA that will make it possible to change clubs as he is not competent. In the last 15 years there is no known jurisprudence to the contrary, neither from the body that governs world football, nor from the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS). This is what sources close to FIFA itself assure this newspaper. The process of obtaining the transfer would not go beyond what it takes to register the pertinent documentation of the parties and be verified by the transfer system (TMS), this is approximately a week.
Messi announced his intention to leave the Barça club by means of a burofax sent last Monday at 7:20 pm to the legal services of FC Barcelona. The Rosario communicated his decision to activate the clause that allows him to leave at the end of each season in accordance with the contract he signed in 2017, ends in 2021 and has refused to renew despite the interest of the Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
The Rosario explains in the letter that he did not communicate his intention to leave the club before having moved the dates of the end of the season - he concluded on August 23 with the Champions League final - because of the covid-19. On the contrary, Barça understands that the escape clause expired on June 10 and, therefore, Messi has a contract in force until June 30 and a termination clause of 700 million.
The dispute, the duration of which is unknown, will end in a court, presumably in Barcelona, if both parties do not reach an agreement beforehand to terminate the relationship, a circumstance that is currently very complicated after the burofax that Messi and Messi have sent each other. Barça. The court would establish the economic amount that the player must pay to the club, a circumstance that, in the meantime, will not block the transfer from FIFA.
The Barça management aspires at least to receive a record figure, higher than the 222 million it collected for the termination clause paid by PSG in 2017 for Neymar Junior. The option of agreeing on a transfer price, as happened in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo's departure from Real Madrid, is complicated except for Messi to step back, an option sought by the various opponents of Bartomeu's management.
Former president Joan Laporta and candidate Víctor Font have requested the resignation of the president, a motion of censure is announced by fellow candidate Jordi Ferrer and the formation of a common front is not ruled out to try to make Messi continue at Barça if he forces himself Bartomeu's resignation and the elections scheduled for March 15, 2021, are called immediately.
It does not seem that Messi has acted hot after the 2-8 conceded in Lisbon against Bayern Munich, but rather that the possibility of leaving Barça was opened since he included the clause that allows him to release his agreement with the club in 2017. The plan devised would end with his signing by a team that could be Manchester City. The English club has long had an economic viability plan to incorporate Messi.
Messi would have already spoken with Pep Guardiola, City coach and former coach of his in the most successful stage at Barça, as he did on the two previous occasions, in 2014 and 2016, when his move to the Manchester club was considered . This was announced by Catalunya Ràdio. Now the option would be very firm against the interest that clubs such as Manchester United, Paris Saint Germain and also Inter have shown.
Messi does not want to be part of any Bartomeu project after the many disagreements lived, especially in the 2019-2020 season. The player already gave signs that the relationship had come to an end in the interview he had with Ronald Koeman on Thursday. The talk accelerated his decision to leave the club when he learned that his friend Luis Suárez had been invited to leave the Camp Nou.
Koeman hoped to convince Messi with the leadership role he reserved for him in a rejuvenated team after his decision to dispense with players such as Luis Suárez, Rakitic, Arturo Vidal and Umtiti and rethink the role of Busquets, Alba and Piqué. Messi's response was negative and his attitude already announced his intention to leave Barça. The surprise for Barcelona fans have been the forms used by 10.
Some sectors of Barcelona agree that the burofax and unilateralism is not the best way to end a relationship that began in 2000 for more reasons than Messi has accumulated. "The player has surely lacked the greatness that Bartomeu has never supposed," said a Barça executive. The announcement confirms in any case the open war between the board and the dressing room at the Camp Nou.