Barcelona’s all-time main goalscorer Lionel Messi says he’s staying as a result of it’s “unattainable” for any staff to pay his launch clause and he doesn’t need to face the club in court docket.
The Argentine, 33, despatched a fax to Barca final Tuesday saying he needed to train a clause in his contract which he stated allowed him to go away totally free.
However the club stated his 700m euro (£624m) launch clause would have to be met.
“I believed and was certain that I used to be free to go away,” Messi advised Goal.
“The president at all times stated that at the top of the season I may resolve if I stayed or not.
“Now they cling to the truth that I didn’t say it earlier than 10 June, when it seems that on 10 June we have been competing for La Liga in the course of this terrible coronavirus and this illness altered all of the season.
“And that is the explanation why I’m going to proceed within the club. Now I’m going to proceed within the club as a result of the president advised me that the one means to go away was to pay the 700m clause, and that that is unattainable.”
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