Although the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, had thought several times to leave Barcelona, most recently last season, he made his final decision to leave this summer for 10 reasons that were reported by the Spanish newspaper MARCA.
The newspaper said that there are both sports and legal reasons that influenced Messi's desire to leave the Catalan club this summer, and the legal reasons were specified in 3 points, the most important of which is that there is no penalty clause worth 700 million euros - as was said - in the last year of his contract.
The extension of the deadline to notify the club of its desire to leave due to the delay until the end of the season, instead of the previous deadline of June 10, was the second legal reason, in addition to Barcelona's President Josep Maria Bartomeu's statements in many interviews that Messi can leave whenever he wants.
Sports reasons In addition
to the legal reasons that prompted Messi to ask to leave, there are 7 technical and sporting reasons, which are as follows:
1- Barcelona's project is not ambitious, and Messi is not convinced of the existence of a future for the team whose hopes of winning are pinned to him.
2- The dismissal of the former coach, Ernesto Valverde, was at the wrong time and in an inappropriate way that angered Messi.
3- Messi's multiple problems with the club's management, as he disagreed with her in many of the decisions she made in recent months, in addition to being affected by the club president's scandal related to social media.
4- The breakdown of his relationship with prominent personalities in the club, such as the recently fired sports director Eric Abidal, who blamed some players for Valverde's departure.
5- Messi felt that his opinion had become irrelevant to the club, and was not taken up in many topics of interest to the team.
6- Messi has come to believe that it is the end of an era in Barcelona, and he agrees with Gerard Pique's opinion that the big players should leave and allow new blood to be pumped into the team.
7- Messi and his family were the targets of the club’s scandal on social media, and he was shocked by the club’s involvement in such a scandal.