New decisive date for the future of Messi: 1st January 2021

The fact that Leo Messi go to remain in the FC Barcelona this season 2020-21 does not involve that it decide to follow dressing more time, from June, the Barcelona T-shirt. To day of today the most likely is that the '10' leave next year to the Manchester City with the letter of freedom, since for then the group 'citizen' will not fall in risk of sanctions by part of the FIFA.

Surpassed the challenge to do that Messi remain -although of form forced- during the campaign 2020-21 in the Barça, it will be necessary to advance a bit in the time, until 1 January 2021, to find the following key date in the future of the Argentinian star. And it is that, from this day, Messi already will have absolute freedom to negotiate a future agreement with another club.

This yes, the regulation of the FIFA says that it will not be able to do it to backs of the Barça. The norm forces to the club of destination to communicate it to the Barcelona club before initiating the negotiations with the player, although it will be missing to see if the City, or the team to the that decide to go Messi, follows all the legal steps or jumps any by the way. In the Regulation on the Statute and Transfer of Players, specifically in his section IV relative to the contractual Stability between professional players and clubs, exists an article that speaks of the special disposals related with the agreements between players and clubs.

It is the Article 18, whose third point signals that "a club that wish concertar an agreement with a professional player has to communicate by writing his intention to the club of the player before initiating the negotiations with the player". If it fulfils this premise, Messi will have absolute freedom to negotiate with his future team. "A professional player will have the freedom to sign an agreement with another club if his agreement with the current club has won or will win inside a term of six months", says another section of the regulation.

The Barça will follow trying renew him

From 1 January, therefore, Messi will have to go thinking in his future if it is that it has not thought it already the sufficient. Before, the FC Barcelona will have of some very valuable months to try convince him, to him and to his surroundings, that it renew with the Barcelona club and do not do the cases.

For the time being, think in a hypothetical renewal of Leo Messi with the FC Barcelona seems an utopia. But with the change of directive, after the elections of the next month of March of 2021, will open a new stage in which it can occur anything. And in this of the football, already have seen that the situations can give twists of ciento eighty degrees in hardly some days.