Argentine star of the Spanish Premier League football club “Barcelona” Lionels Mesi on Wednesday returned to the Barcelona unit’s joint training, the club reports.
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Unlike Monday, when the 33-year-old superstar had to train alone under the La Liga coronavirus protocol, on Wednesday he joined the other footballers in a training led by new coach Ronald Kuman.
According to the club’s announcement, Filipe Cooutigne, Serhio Busket, Frankie de Jong and Ansu Fati also returned to training in the joint group.
The fair at the Catalan Club will spend another season.
The Argentine superstar announced bitterly last week that he would stay at the club, adding: “There is a new coach and new ideas. That’s fine, but we need to see how the team learns them and whether it will allow us to compete at the highest level.”
Mesi’s discomfort at the club has further increased as his two closest friends in Barcelona, Luis Svarez and Arturo Vidal, are expected to join Turin’s Juventus and Milan’s Inter teams respectively.
Kuman’s first game since replacing Enrique Setien after last month’s humiliating 2: 8 defeat in the Champions League against Munich’s Bayern is scheduled for Saturday. It will be a test game against an unnamed third division club.
It has already been reported that Messi informed the club at the end of August about the desire to leave the team, but will stay in Barcelona for at least one season.
For the first time since the 2007/2008 season, “Barcelona” was left without titles.
The fair and club agreement stipulates that every season until May 31, the footballer has the right to terminate the agreement without a redemption fee. Mesi’s lawyers believed that the Argentine had the right to do it later this year, because the season ended only in August, but the club had the opposite opinion.
The redemption fee for the 33-year-old Messi contract is 700 million euros and the contract will be concluded in June next year.
Mesi has won the Ballon d’Or award six times during his career, which is presented to the best footballer of the year in Europe. He helped the Barcelona team win the Spanish Championship ten times and win four UEFA Champions League trophies.
He has been with the Barcelona team since he was 13 years old.
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