Barcelona spokesman, Josep
Vives, has pleaded with Lionel Messi to remain at the club.
According to Vives, he
cannot imagine Messi leaving the Camp Nou, after Cristiano Ronaldo left Real
Madrid to join Juventus earlier this month.
Ronaldo had a €1billion
release clause in his contract, but Madrid allowed him to join Juve for
significantly less, once he asked to leave.
Messi signed a new deal
with Barca in November, with a release clause worth €700m, that ties him to the
club through the 2020/2021 season.
“I cannot imagine that
situation in which Messi is not with us,” Vives told reporters on Thursday.
“I am already getting
nervous because there have been many days without football [games]. We do not
imagine this situation here.”
Earlier this week, Marco
Tronchetti Provera, the CEO of Pirelli, one of Inter Milan’s main sponsors,
suggested that Inter’s owners would consider a move for Messi in response to
Ronaldo’s arrival in Serie A.
But Inter vice president,
Javier Zanetti, laughed off that suggestion while speaking to Fox Sports
Argentina.
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