"Had the hope that Leo said that it would play free", those were parts of the recent statements during an interview conceded to RAC-1 of the president of the FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, in allusion to the difficult decision that had to the club to do without the services of his best footballer, because of the acute financial crisis inherited after the management of Josep Maria Bartomeu. Afterwards the mandamás of the Barcelona would clear that never it had allowed such situation the considered in his opinion the best player of the world, although like this LaLiga allowed it.
By his part, Messi has underlined in an interview published in the morning of this Saturday 9 October, in the magazine France Football, the surprise that supposed for him the announcement by part of the Barça that it did not go to renew by the group blaugrana, in spite of that previous weeks had arrived to a pact that included a discount of his wage to benefit the project of Laporta and sanear the accounts.
"If it expected it to me? Frankly, no. I returned to Barcelona to prepare me for the season after having taken advantage of the holidays that gave me Koeman. The idea was to sign the agreement and begin to train immediately. It thought that it was all fixed and that only was missing my signature, but when I arrived said me that it was not possible", related Read to said half.
Moment limit
"Me emplazaron to look for me another club because the Barça did not have sufficient resources to renew me. This altered my plans", added the footballer, the one who finally decided fichar by the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the past summer. A club Been that now it has it beside Neymar Jr., Kylian Mbappé, Sergio Bouquets, between other figures of the world-wide football.
"The club issued a communiqué saying that it did not go to be followed. From this moment began to ask me how went me to recover. I had to look for a new club to continue my career. Had the luck that they contacted me varied, included the PSG, that from the beginning treated me very well: it showed that really they wanted to me and they took care me. I appreciate them because today I am very happy", sustained Messi, the one who marked his first goal with the elastic Parisian against the Manchester City in the past day of the phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League.