According to RAC1, Argentina international told the new boss that right now \u201cHe does not see his future at Bar\u00e7a clearly\u201d and is leaning more towards leaving than staying.<\/p>\n
The two did meet at Messi\u2019s home and he made it very clear later that how unhappy he was after the 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Yet Messi is also very clear that it won\u2019t be easy to leave the club at this current moment. He is still under contract until 2021 and has a release clause set at a whopping straight \u20ac700 million.<\/p>\n
Koeman said this yesterday that he is keen on holding Messi at the club, but he also said he only \u201cwants to work with players who want to be here.\u201dIt seems that Messi still hasn\u2019t quite made his mind up about his future and will need convincing it\u2019s worth staying at the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n
Marcelo Bechler\u2019s stunning announcement that Messi, furious after the Bayern defeat, doesn\u2019t want to wait until his current deal expires in 2021 before leaving Camp Nou came as an absolute shocker to the footballing world.<\/p>\n
\u201cMessi has always thought him and Barca were \u2018just one thing,\u2019 but now he is thinking maybe he can be another thing without Barcelona. He can take another step and try to win without Barcelona. He is angry with the board and disappointed with the club and wants to leave now. Barca is pessimistic because they can\u2019t offer a solid project and can\u2019t do much to help him. It is very likely he leaves Barcelona if there is another project, I don\u2019t know where or which club. It is impossible in this economy to pay \u20ac700 million, but I think Barca don\u2019t want him here unhappy. After all that Messi gave to them, they don\u2019t want him here as a prisoner.\u201d Bechler explained.<\/p>\n
It also sounds like Barcelona would not stand in Messi\u2019s way if he really wants to leave the club, but its not like that they wouldn\u2019t want to. They obviously will love the idea of him staying back and holding in the club, but there\u2019s absolutely nothing the club can do if he prefers finally to walk out and seek his peace elsewhere. The last thing Messi would want is to feel like unhappy and a prisoner at Camp Nou, so it sounds likely that they would accept a fee significantly lower than his \u20ac700 million buyout clause if he really were to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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