Barcelona legend Lionel Messi hands in a transfer request.

After becoming six-time- Ballon D’Or winner with Barcelona, Messi sent a fax to the Barcelona board, seeking to leave the club.

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi has disclosed to Barcelona that he wishes to leave the club quickly, a source affirmed on Tuesday, developing the disturbance inside the Catalan side under about fourteen days after their mortifying 8-2 annihilation by Bayern Munich. Messi has spent his whole career at Barca and informed the club about his craving to leave by sending a burofax, a service utilized in Spain to earnestly dispatch a document that expects confirmation to outsiders. 

The tussle between the Barcelona board and Messi may get ugly:

As per the sources, the burofax alluded to a condition in the last contract the 33-year-old Argentine marked with the club which permitted him to leave for free, a clause that lapsed on June 10 this year. Under the details of the contract which lapses in 2021, the only way Messi can leave without the club’s assent is if a club pays his release clause of 700 million euros ($828 million). A subsequent source said the player’s legal advisors had informed the club that Messi wished to singularly rescind his agreement following a statement in his agreement. “The club thinks about that the agreement is completely official until 30 June 2021,” included the subsequent source. Barca is amidst a transition of freshening up the squad following the 8-2 thrashing by Bayern in the Champions League quarter-finals not long ago, which meant that the club finished a season without any trophy for the first time in 12 years. 

Carles Puyol lends support to Messi’s decision to leave:

Messi, who has been named the world player of the year a record six times, has become frustrated in the last 12 months with how the club is being run. In February, he lashed out at then sporting director Eric Abidal via online media and two or after three months turned his displeasure on the club order for how players had to accept a pay-cut in salary to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic financial crisis. Carles Puyol backed Messi’s desire to leave the club and showed respect for the little magician.