Six-times international player of the year Messi, sad at his team’s failure to win any silverware final season and humiliated through an 8-2 Champions League thrashing through Bayern Munich, told the club that he wants to leave last week.
Lionel Messi’s father and agent met Barcelona club president Josep Maria Bartomeu on Wednesday to speak about the participants want to end the membership however the talks resulted in a stalemate, Spanish media reported.
Earlier, Jorge Messi stated it might be “difficult” for his son to stay with Barcelona, the most superficial membership he has ever performed professionally.
The assembly lasted one-and-a-1/2 of hours and became held in a cordial atmosphere, in keeping with media reviews which includes sports activities dailies Marca and Mundo Deportivo.
They said Bartomeu sees Messi as a key a part of Barca’s plans to rebuild underneath new instruct Ronald Koeman. There became no remark from the membership.
Six-instances international participant of the 12 months Messi, sad at his team’s failure to win any silverware final season and humiliated through an 8-2 Champions League thrashing through Bayern Munich, instructed the membership last week that he desired to go away.
The Argentine insists he has a clause in his settlement that lets in him to go away on a loose transfer – a declare disputed through Barcelona and La Liga, who says he can most straightforward go away if a rival membership is inclined to pay a seven hundred million euro ($830.20 million) buyout clause.
“I don’t understand, I understand nothing,” Messi’s father instructed Spanish TV channel Cuatro after flying in on a personal jet.
Pressed if it might be difficult for him to stay, he stated “yes”, and requested how he sees Messi’s destiny in Barcelona; he replied “difficult, difficult”.
Messi overlooked a clinical on Sunday and did now no longer display up on Monday for the preliminary education consultation of the season.