The time has come. Lionel Messi is free to negotiate with the club you want: six months after your contract with the club expires Barcelona, The six-time winner of the Gold ball is authorized to negotiate with other clubs from this January 1 in view of a possible exit of the current course. What will be the future of the Argentine?
While the January ‘market’ opens this weekend at Europe and Monday a Spain, The coming weeks are set to be decisive for the Boat and for the future of the superstar culer (33 years old), who already showed a few months ago his desire to change his mind and that the regulations of the FIFA it already grants legal authorization to hold talks with any club with a view to negotiating a new contract without having to pay for the transfer from 1 July.
The Catalan club will elect its new president on January 24, and the new board will have as one of the first missions to convince Messi of staying at Barcelona.
Affected by the lack of stability in the club, by the crisis for more than a year, with a succession of coaches (three in a year) and disappointing results such as the historic humiliation suffered last August against the Bayern Munich a Champions League (8-2), Messi decided to leave the club last August … but finally stayed, forced by his contract in the face of the refusal to open the door of president Josep Maria Bartomeu, And resigned.
Leo “hasn’t decided yet.” But the player, who left his hometown of Rosario (Argentina) at the age of 13 in 2000 to arrive at La Masia, Barça’s training center, confessed on Sunday to La Sexta that it will be “difficult to return to the club at the level it was at “.
Something uneasy. “How can Messi not want to leave with this team?”, Asked the sports newspaper Marca, on December 19, after the poor performance of the Catalan club against Valencia (2-2) in the League.
Present in the stands on Tuesday, Messi was capcot after the draw against Eibar in the Camp Nou (1-1).