Lionel Messi during the interview granted to Goal, in which he announces that he remains at Barça, September 4, 2020. -

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“Se queda!

The Spanish press is delighted Saturday with the announcement of Lionel Messi to stay at FC Barcelona, ​​after a ten-day "crisis" with his club, but notes the "devastating message" sent to his management.

“Messi remains, so does the crisis,” Marca, Spain's best-selling newspaper, posted alongside a close-up full-page face of the Argentine star.

#LaPortada Messi se queda, the también crisis 🗞️ pic.twitter.com/290cs00nY9

- MARCA (@marca) September 4, 2020

"The Argentinian continues reluctantly", specifies the sports newspaper, after what he summed up as "Barça's biggest crisis", a soap opera that has kept football fans in suspense across the world since Messi announced at the club he wanted to break his contract on August 25.

Same tone on the front page of the Catalan sports newspaper

Mundo Deportivo

 : "Messi breaks the silence and announces that he will continue in the blaugrana jersey next season", rejoices the daily above a very red A, repeating this sentence dropped by the "Pulga" (chip, in Spanish) in her interview with the Goal.com media the day before: "I stay and I will give the maximum".

🗞 Aquí os dejamos nuestra portada de hoyhttps: //t.co/4ZnaG3eTg6 pic.twitter.com/6LUBwDk7ir

- Mundo Deportivo (@mundodeportivo) September 4, 2020

But

Mundo Deportivo

also underlines the "mensaje demoledor", "devastating message" in VF, captain Blaugrana, relaying the tackles addressed to the club management by Messi in his interview on Friday.

“Messi said he was staying and that he would give the maximum.

This is first of all what the Catalan supporters of Barça must remember.

(…) But he had a devastating message.

He aimed his arrows directly at (President Josep Maria) Bartomeu ”, summarizes

Mundo Deportivo

director

Santi Nolla in his column.

Back with the band early next week?

The sports dailies

Sport

and

As

, for their part, welcome the decision of the six-fold Ballon d'Or.

“Se queda!

», Displays the Catalan newspaper Sport above a photo of the Argentinian wearing the 2020-2021 Barça jersey, and a selection of strong sentences released by Messi the day before.

"Me quedo" ("I stay"), also chose to post on its front page the newspaper

As

, taking up this declaration of Messi: "I will never go to trial against the club in my life".

This Saturday morning, the Argentinian has still not trained with the rest of the group.

The players were called up for a training session scheduled for 9:30 am at the Joan Gamper center.

The number 10 did not cross the main entrance, noted the journalists on the spot.

According to the Spanish press, the Argentine must first pass his PCR test for the detection of the coronavirus, and could return to the group later at the beginning of next week.

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