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Josep Maria Bartomeu in an image of archive

It DENIES HIS LINK

Bartomeu detaches of the controversy on the agreement of Messi

Published:1/02/2021 - 10:13h

Updated:1/02/2021 - 10:13h

Josep María Bartomeu, ex-president of the FC Barcelona, has denied to have any relation with the disclosure of the agreement of Lionel Messi, in the program Goal to Goal of TV3

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The past week closed with the controversial disclosure of the figures and the details that surround to the agreement of Lionel Messi, situation that has left several distinguished and a lot of details for joining. One of the people that remained in the eye of the hurricane was Josep María Bartomeu, ex-president of the FC Barcelona, the one who does not have the best relation with the Argentinian.

It is very known that the things between Bartomeu and Messi went putting taut with the happen of the time, until it exploded the controversy that reigned the past summer, when the Argentinian sent the famous burofax where asked his exit of the Barcelona. That was one of the causes of the resignation of the exmandatario, which gave around the middle of the past summer.

Now, with the subject of the leak of the agreement of Messi, Bartomeu has wanted desligarse of any link and relation with the unpleasant situation. The exfuncionario of the Barcelona sent a message to the program Goal to Goal, of TV3, in which it regretted it sucedido around the disclosure of the details of the legal document that joins to the Argentinian and to the club, but also has washed the hands, evading the responsibility of the fact.

"I seat to listen that I have filtered this agreement. It is totally false", went the words of Bartomeu in the television program, afterwards that Xavi Valls, one of the presenters of the same, accused it during his intervention in the show. The same driver of Goal to Goal ensured that the same Messi thinks that was the ex-president of the Barcelona the one who commissioned to reveal the details of the contractual document.

Bartomeu, one of several suspects

The reason of the suspicions on Josep María Bartomeu, further of the taut relation that was supported by Lionel Messi and the controversial form in which it went out of the presidency of the club, is that the exmandatario is one of the five people that know the details of the agreement of the Argentinian with the club. The others involved would be Óscar Grau, Jordi Mestre and the managers of the sportive direction and the juridical services of the Catalan entity.

Likewise, the portal Culemania has signalled to the president of the Managing Board that governs at present to the Barcelona, Carles Tusquets, as another of the possible involved in the disclosure of the content of the agreement of Messi. However, the surroundings of the provisional mandator has refused said affirmation.