A few days after the announcement of his desire to leave, the newspaper El Pais notes that Lionel Messi "behaves as if he was already a former Barça player".
In La Vanguardia, the writer Serge Ibanez believes that the Argentinian has "won the right to go where he wants".
The Lionel Messi case divides Spain.
A few days after expressing his intention to leave FC Barcelona, the Argentine has still not reappeared at the Catalan club's training center, while his management does not intend to let him go freely.
Sure of his decision, the Argentinian did not show up for training on Monday night, explains
El Pais
.
On Sunday, the six-fold Ballon d'Or had already refused to take tests for the coronavirus.
For the newspaper, Messi "behaves as if he is already a former Barça player".
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"He has earned the right to go wherever he wants"
The striker has engaged in an arm wrestling with his management, for whom Messi should have warned in early June that he wanted to leave, recalls
Mundo Deportivo
.
The club that wants to recruit the star will have to pay its release clause which amounts to 700 million euros.
The Spanish league has lined up behind the club's management,
La Vanguardia said
.
In the same newspaper, the writer Serge Ibanez defends the player.
"He has won the right to go wherever he wants, after having carried a declining Barça at arm's length in recent years. The author denounces" the grotesque severity of a management desperate to prevent Messi from leaving. "