Lionel Messi and Barça have hit rock bottom. - Manu Fernandez / POOL / AFP

Lionel Messi would have shaved the cap of Barça. It's an old sea serpent that emerges as soon as Barça is doing less well in recent years, and we would probably have chosen to ignore the rumor in most cases. But the identity of the conferee who released the info makes us doubt a little, even without being Czech. This is Marcelo Bechler, the Brazilian journalist who had revealed before everyone else the departure of Neymar for PSG.

Messi no longer has confidence in the management

Three years later, same decor, a direct in front of Camp Nou, to explain that the Argentinian would have confided to the leaders of FC Barcelona that he wanted to leave the club after the humiliation suffered in the quarter-finals of C1 against Bayern (8 -2), without commensurate with the previous failures against Roma or Liverpool.

URGENT! Complies apuração EXCLUSIVA do nosso correspondente @MarceloBechler, Messi quer DEIXAR o Barcelona IMEDIATAMENTE! Unsatisfeito com a administração e falta de planejamento, o craque argentino já comunicou à direção o desejo de mudar de clube. pic.twitter.com/yGBdOAVf9j

- Esporte Interativo (de 🏠) (@Esp_Interativo) August 16, 2020

The Catalan club is in crisis on all levels, and that includes President Bartomeu, who is expected to announce this Monday the dismissal of Quique Setien to replace him with Koeman, the former glory of the Wembley final, failing to advance the elections scheduled for a year from now. An appointment that could reassure Messi? This is not the first time that Barça's banner has had a hard time, and he has the right to ask himself questions about his end of his career, he who believes he still has 3 years to give football very high level.

Mundo Deportivo: "Koeman, más cerca" .https: //t.co/9Uq4ZVpZYR pic.twitter.com/ksoUo0MNTm

- TODOmercadoWEB (@Todomercadoweb) August 17, 2020

Very attached to Barcelona, ​​which he joined at age 13, Messi also knows that his pharaonic salary (we are talking about more than 100 million per year including taxes) makes any transfer almost impossible, and that he has not activated the clause allowing him to leave the club in full freedom in June. In short, it mostly looks like a way to put pressure on management to get an early election, perhaps, and Xavi's arrival at the earliest, but these are just guesses.

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