Lionel Messi stated on Friday he’ll keep at Barcelona, insisting he might by no means go to courtroom towards “the membership of his life”. However he launched a stinging assault on Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom he accused of going again on an settlement to let him depart at no cost on the finish of final season. “The president all the time stated that on the finish of the season I might resolve if I wished to go or if I wished to remain and in the long run he did not find yourself holding his phrase,” Messi stated in an interview with Objective, launched on Friday.
“I believed and we had been certain that I used to be free. The president all the time stated that on the finish of the season I might resolve if I stayed or not and now they maintain on to the truth that I didn’t say it earlier than June 10 when it seems that on June 10 we had been competing for the league in the midst of this shitty virus and this illness that altered all of the dates.
Messi added: “And that is the rationale why I’m going to proceed within the membership… as a result of the president advised me that the one option to depart was to pay the 700-million-euro launch clause.
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“That is not possible, after which the opposite manner was to go to trial. I might by no means go to courtroom towards Barca as a result of it’s the membership that I really like, that gave me the whole lot since I arrived, it’s the membership of my life, I’ve made my life right here.”
Messi had stated he wished to go away the membership he joined as a boy after Barcelona’s humiliating Eight-2 defeat to Bayern Munich within the Champions League quarter-finals in August.
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