His family confirms his choice to play for Man City and that he will only negotiate with Barcelona to leave
Messi's "rebellion" threatens to suspend his annual salary of 60 million euros
Lionel Messi occupied the world with his decision to leave Barcelona a week ago.
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Things between Barcelona and the captain of the first team, Argentine Lionel Messi, reached a "boycott", after the player continued his rebellion and missed the first two group training sessions for the team, in addition to not attending the Corona virus examination for the first team players, in preparation for the start of preparations for the new season under the leadership of the Dutch coach Ronald Koeman.
"Marca" newspaper revealed that Lionel Messi has so far lost a quarter of his monthly salary, which is equivalent to 1.4 million euros, after missing training twice without giving a convincing reason, in addition to not attending the examination of "Covid-19", and said that the laws of the First Division in Spain "LaLiga", grants Barcelona the right to suspend the player's annual salary of 60 million euros, which is a painful financial blow for the player, if he continues his absence this month.
It is noteworthy that Lionel Messi officially addressed the club's management of his desire to leave, and stressed the need to do this "for free" without having to pay the penalty clause of 700 million euros. However, according to the same newspaper, the Barcelona club management insists that Messi is required to pay The penalty clause so he can leave, and she is sticking to his stay.
Faced with this blockage, Messi's father and his business manager, Jorge, is seeking to arrange a meeting with the club's management within the next two days, in order to find a compromise, based on Messi's exit in a way that preserves the rights of both sides.
Messi has dominated football news for days, as the deal awaiting his exit may be the largest ever in the history of football, especially in light of the talk about Man City's preparation for a major show that gives Messi huge privileges, starting with maintaining his annual salary of 60 million euros, before taxes. In addition to other bonuses that make him receive more than 100 million euros annually, this is in addition to the payment of more than 100 million euros to Barcelona, in addition to the club's willingness to include players in the deal, and here we talk about names such as the Portuguese Bernando Silva and the Algerian Riad Mehrez, And the Brazilian Jesus.
Lionel Messi's cousin, Maxi, revealed that the Argentine star’s family is sure that he will leave Barcelona this summer, and Marca quoted him as saying that Messi is more than ever determined to leave and will not back down, and that everyone from his relatives is convinced that he has indeed chosen to play for Man. City, and that in the coming days, everything will revolve around finding a solution for the disengagement, not for the player's continuation in Barcelona.
On the other hand, a number of Barcelona players are close to officially leaving the club, after they are on the list of undesirable ones by the Dutch coach, as negotiations between Luis Suarez and Juventus have reached an advanced stage, and talk about allocating the number (9) to him in the Italian club Also, in the same country, Inter approached the announcement of the contract with Chilean Vidal, while Croatian Rakic will return to Seville, the Spaniard, who spent distinguished years with him.
He has lost 1.4 million euros so far after missing Barcelona twice.
Suarez is close to moving to Juventus ... and Vidal to Inter.
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