Throughout this Wednesday, contacts have been maintained between the Barcelona Soccer Club and the Messi, as reported by Sique Rodríguez in El Larguero. The president of Barcelona Josep María Bartomeu Y Jorge Messi, as representative of the astro, have spoken again in the last hours of this Wednesday, by phone.
In these conversations, Bartomeu has maintained that wants to convince Messi that he stays, but the Messi have told him that Leo’s cycle at Barça is over, that he has won everything, that he wants new challenges and that he wants a competitive team.
In the same way, Sique Rodríguez has reported that Barça does not want to sell Messi, but Messi wants to leave and in the club there are already those who understand that if he leaves he must be the most expensive transfer in history, this is more than 220 million euros.
Messi, for his part, understands that, beyond the clause, he has earned the right to go free as in the past, other great players in the club’s history have left. Barça responds that it is one thing to let Argentina or a league like MLS or the Middle East go free, and another is for them to go free to a direct European rival such as Manchester City or PSG.
The meeting between Messi and Koeman
In the meeting that Messi and Koeman had, face to face and that exceeded one hour, there was a lot of mutual respect. Koeman explained the project to him and one of Messi’s responses was that with which players they were going to face the next season, which players were going to join.
Barcelona has the same problem as the one most clubs have this summer, which, due to the exceptional situation caused by the coronavirus, there is not much money.
Without sales there will be no signings, so the club must sell first and therefore cannot guarantee which footballers they will end up arriving in Barcelona. It is going to go from a budget of about 1,100 million euros to about 800 for this season. The reduction is going to be about 300 million. The wage bill must therefore be lowered in a proportional way to this decline. One of the targets continues to be Lautaro Martínez and another is Eric García, as Sique Rodríguez has said.
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