Messi did not attend Barcelona training center ... "The battle continues"
Argentinian star, Lionel Messi. Archives
The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, who had requested the Barcelona administration to leave a year before the end of his contract, was not present yesterday at the Catalan club's training center, where he and his colleagues are supposed to undergo a "Covid-19" examination.
Unlike all the players and technical and medical teams working in the team, who came yesterday morning to the exercise center to conduct a corona virus test in preparation for the resumption of exercises today, Messi was absent, according to an AFP correspondent, despite the time set for him to take the test was in the hour. 10:15 local time, according to Spanish media.
Even players, such as Uruguayan Luis Suarez and Chilean Arturo Vidal, who were informed by the new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman that they will not be with the team next season, came to the sports city of Juan Gamper to be tested for "Covid-19". The absence of Messi will certainly spark his battle with the club's management, which insists that his desire to terminate his contract will not be met a year before his end. The Barcelona administration finds itself under terrible pressure, amid a call to withdraw confidence from it, after the earthquake caused by the best player in the world six times.
The absence of Messi yesterday was expected by the Catalan newspaper, Mundo Deportivo, with its headline in yesterday's issue: "He will not attend", accompanied by a picture of the Argentine star alone in the empty "Camp Nou" stadium.
And the Spanish newspapers agreed that Messi will go to the battle to the end with the club's management, which believes that the Argentine star does not have the right to use the clause in his contract, which allows him to leave, because the deadline for using this clause was in June.