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Leo Messi is fed up. So much so that it is not even clear that the best option is to renew a contract that ends on June 30, 2021, a link that they hoped to extend in Barcelona this summer and whose negotiations the Argentine has decided to stop, according to Cadena Ser. The pantocrator Barca, just turned 33 and after a turbulent season that threatens demolition, thus puts Josep Maria Bartomeu in a serious predicament .

Messi's renewal was to be the best possible propaganda campaign for the last year in office of a president now caught in the perfect storm. Unable to smother the flames of a sovereign locker room, aware of the mistake of replacing Ernesto Valverde with Quique Setién when the team was still leader of the League, and who now sees how the best footballer in the history of the entity threatens a hasty end . And with taking everything ahead.

President Bartomeu believed that the danger had passed after Messi ignored the clause by which he could have left Barcelona this summer at zero cost. And that before the next League began, the club would be in a position to sign a new contract with a similar release clause. An operation in which the managers of the club would have had to find imaginative formulas to sustain the Argentine's salary, which is around 70 million euros gross after his last signing in 2017. But Messi has decided to stop short. For too long, he has been convinced that messages are emerging from within the entity, blaming him for much of the ills.

"If not, we all get dirty ..."

This same season Messi already picked up his mobile phone and charged viciously against Eric Abidal after the still technical secretary hinted that the footballers, in addition to not complying in training, were behind the dismissal of Valverde. "I think that when we talk about players, we should give names, because if we are not getting all dirty and feeding things that are said and are not true," Messi replied.

The Argentinean was also outraged that in the negotiation of salary cuts carried out with Bartomeu at the start of the pandemic, it was the players who were in the wrong place when the agreement was delayed two weeks. "It never ceases to amaze us that from within there were those who tried to put us under the magnifying glass and tried to add pressure to do something that we always knew we would do," the captain published on his Instagram account, a message shared by the rest of his colleagues.

To this accumulated discontent is added the team's sports drift, four points from Real Madrid in the fight for the title and that has been dragged by frustration in the duels against Sevilla, Celta and Atlético, where the azulgrana they lost six points. Messi, who finished last season wanting Neymar and meeting Antoine Griezmann , assumed last January the dismissal of Valverde because, as they admit in the booth, who should be his replacement was Xavi Hernández . But the one who appeared was Setien. And Eder Sarabia .

Sources close to the locker room say that during one of the first training sessions of Setién, and seeing Messi that Sarabia, who was working in the office, did not appear on the grass, he said to the coach: "He did not know that the training was voluntary."

"I didn't know that the training was voluntary"

The hydration pauses have served for the footballers to show their scarce connection with a coaching staff that has failed to alter the hierarchical order of a locker room anchored in the memory of the 2015 Berlin Champions League. Although Messi ignored the indications de Sarabia in Balaídos, in the last game against Atlético the players simply devoted themselves to drinking water a few meters from the mass officiated by Simeone. And to which all his footballers attended without breathing.

27 goals and 22 assists

Messi has played it all in this post-pandemic football. He has just reached 700 goals in his sports career, and his numbers this season do not admit fault: 27 goals and 22 assists in all competitions. With the Champions still to be concluded. But nothing seems enough in a club that continues to lose battles against decrepitude.

Barcelona has lived on Messi. He has squeezed it. He has seen how he was the one who suffocated the handkerchiefs against the box. How he did not raise his voice after the 'Barçagate' exploded, that still unsolved scandal in which 'fake' accounts were used to mock even his wife. Or how the creation of templates that, as he himself warned, did not give to win the Champions fitted with frustration. Philippe Coutinho , Ousmane Dembélé and Griezmann, more than 400 million between the three, are the most expensive signings in the club's history. Barcelona did not notice that patience is never infinite.

Messi is now the one who points his booty at Bartomeu.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Quique Setién
• Antoine Griezmann
• Real Madrid
• Ousmane Dembélé
• Neymar
• Leo Messi
• Ernesto Valverde
• sports
• soccer
• FC Barcelona
• First division
• Champions League

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