Lionel Messi has now stated that he would stay in the club that he joined when he was barely 13 years old.
Messi announced today that he has decided to remain at the club for the 2020-21 season after the club refused to allow a free transfer.
Messi told
Ruben Uria of Goal that a disputed clause in his contract wouldn’t have made it
financially viable to complete a move to another club:
“I thought
and was sure that I was free to leave, the president always said that at the
end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not.
“Now they
cling to the fact that I did not say it before June 10, when it turns out that
on June 10 we were competing for La Liga in the middle of this awful
coronavirus and this disease altered all the season.
“And this is
the reason why I am going to continue in the club. Now I am going to continue
in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay
the €700 million (£624m/$823m) clause, and that this is impossible.”
“I wasn’t
happy and I wanted to leave. I have not been allowed this in any way and I will
STAY at the club so as not to get into a legal dispute. The management of the
club led by Bartomeu is a disaster”, Messi told Goal.
Earlier
today, his father Jorge Messi had written La Liga to debunk the notion he could
not leave Barcelona, by the terms of his contract.
It now seems
the Messis were trying to avoid a messy court wrangle.
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