Spanish reporter about Messi: "It shows that he has already decided"

2020-08-26T18:14:40.835Z

Lionel Messi has asked to leave Barcelona. The big club will do everything to keep him, but should it be impossible, they will not ask for 700 million, as the buyout clause says. - Neymar left for 222 million Euros, Messi must go for at least 223. They want him to be the most expensive in the club's history, says the Spanish journalist Cordula Reinhardt to SVT Sport.

That Lionel Messi wants to move from Barcelona should have come as a shock to the club. At the same time, the relationship with the management has deteriorated during the last season and when Ronald Koeman was appointed as coach last week, the cup must have overflowed after a phone call.

- Messi interrupted his holiday to talk to the new coach. It should not have been a pleasant conversation, where Koeman should have said that there will no longer be any special treatment of players, says Cordula Reinhardt in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo.

Must have been in contact with City

According to several media, Koeman has at the same time announced attacking star Luis Suárez that he is no longer desirable at the club.

After that, Messi, according to Reinhardt, should have called Manchester City's coach Pep Guardiola.

- Messi should have asked if Manchester City would like to recruit Messi. We do not yet know what the answer was, but what we do know is that he (Messi) has one of his best friends, Kun Agüero, in City. It shows that he has already made up his mind.

Messi is said to have chosen to submit a document (a so-called bureau fax), which makes it all the more credible that he wants to leave Barcelona. The 33-year-old also has a clause in his contract that says he can leave the club every year in June, ten days after the end of the season. Since the corona pandemic interrupted the season, Messi claims that the season has just ended and that he should be able to leave freely, without any money in between.

- It is the worst thing that could happen to Barcelona, that he sent a bureau fax. Barcelona only replied that they do not want him to leave, they know that if they take this to court, Messi has a great chance of winning.

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