Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu resigns

President Bartomeu announced his resignation on October 27, 2020. -

It was him or Lionel Messi.

And we do not touch the Argentine emblem.

FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu announced his resignation on Tuesday evening.

Under pressure since this summer, and the letter sent by Messi announcing his intention to leave because of the management, the president ended up giving in, while he had announced on Monday that he wanted to go until the end of his contract, in March next.

El presidente Josep Maria Bartomeu anuncia la dimisión de la Junta Directiva del FC Barcelona pic.twitter.com/Skyj68x9J5

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The information was released in the early evening on the

.

Bartomeu, who had been at the head of the club since 2015, confirmed it himself a little later, during a press conference.

“I am appearing today to inform you of my resignation and that of the rest of the management committee.

It is a thoughtful, calm, joint decision approved by all my collaborators, ”he declared.

Bartomeu was targeted by a motion of censure, opponents having managed to collect the necessary signatures from the members to activate it.

But the president therefore preferred to leave before the impeachment referendum, scheduled for November 1 and 2.

The situation was less and less tenable for the Catalan.

The recent Clasico defeat against Real Madrid (1-3) and the memory of the humiliation inflicted by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final in August (2-8) also weakened him, in addition of the Messi case.

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