Leo Messi informed this Tuesday to the FC Barcelona about his final decision to abandon the Barcelona team this same summer. The news supposes a very hard hit to the sportive plans of the Barcelona group, that had the Argentinian star to lead the revolution of the team with Ronald Koeman in the bench and a short months that they celebrate the elections to the presidency to relieve to Josep Maria Bartomeu.
The Manchester City, that does some years already seduced to Leo Messi and was about to to carry it to the Etihad Stadium, goes back to appear as big favourite to carry to the Argentinian star. The economic power of the English club and the presence of Pep Guardiola in the bench do that the 'cityzens' lead the grill of applicants to fichar to 'the flea' by in front of Inter of Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
The first option of the Manchester City is to carry this same summer to Leo Messi without paying neither an alone euro to the FC Barcelona concept of traspaso. The Barcelona captain, in his burofax to the Catalan club, asked that it terminated him the agreement attending to the clause of leakage of which has to final of each season. The problem is that this caducó the past 10 June and that the entity culé considers that this option no longer is in force.
Said in other words unless Leo Messi initiate a war with the FC Barcelona and win it by judicial road, will not obtain the letter of freedom and the Manchester City no will be able to it to him carry to cost zero. Nevertheless, in case to give this situation, the English club would not renounce to the Argentinian, but it would try to negotiate with the Catalan club to convince him to leave leave to his captain, that has entirely decided that it does not want to follow dressing of Barcelona.
According to the informations published by 'ESPN', the Manchester City would be had to offer until 177 million dollars (150 million euros) to convince to the FC Barcelona of the traspaso of Leo Messi. Besides, to facilitate the operation, the English group also would contemplate to include to two players of the like of the club culé: the central Eric García (19 years) and the left side Angeliño (23).
The FC Barcelona could finish yielding
The FC Barcelona has Leo Messi and wants to retain it, although the most likely is that it do not do it against the will of the Argentinian. If the culés win the legal battle in the agreement of the '10' but the captain follows wishing go, Josep Maria Bartomeu and his managerial board could study a traspaso, respecting the will of the player. The most likely option, reiterate, is the one of a Manchester City that already would be negotiating with the player.