The moment has come. Lionel Messi you are free to negotiate with the club you want: six months after your contract with the club expires Barcelona, the six-time winner of the golden Ball He is authorized to negotiate with other clubs from 1 January with a view to a possible departure at the end of the current course. What will the future of the Argentinian be?
While January’s ‘mercato’ rings over this weekend Europe and Monday in Spain, announced determinants for the Barça and for the future of the culé superstar (33 years old), who a few months ago already showed his desire to change scenes and to which the regulations of the FIFA it already grants legal permission to talk to a club with a view to negotiating a new contract without paying for the transfer from July 1.
The Catalan club will elect its new president on January 24 and the new board will be one of the first missions to convince. Messi stay inside Barcelona.
Affected by the lack of stability in the club, by the crisis of more than a year, with a succession of coaches (three in one year) and disappointing results such as the historic humiliation he suffered against him last August Bayern Munich in Champions League (8-2), Messi decided to leave the club last August … but ended up remaining, bound by his contract for refusal to open the president’s door Josep Maria Bartomeu, already resigned.
Leo “hasn’t made a decision yet.” But the player, who left his city of Rosario (Argentina) in 2000 at the age of 13 to arrive at La Masía, the training center of Barça, confessed in La Sexta on Sunday that it “will be difficult to bring the club back to the level at which it was. “.
Something that is not very reassuring. “How could Messi not want to join this team?”, Asked the sports newspaper Marca on December 19 after the Catalan club’s poor performance against Valencia (2-2) in the competition.
Present in the stands on Tuesday, Messi was intoxicated after the draw against him Eibar Bee Camp Nou (1-1).