Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong has revealed that teammate Lionel Messi remains to be within the membership’s “group chat” regardless of not too long ago asking to depart Camp Nou. Messi has already expressed his need to depart Barcelona and English membership Manchester Metropolis are being seen as one of many locations for the Argentine famous person. “I hope that Messi remains to be there once I get again, however that’s not one thing that’s as much as me. He is nonetheless within the group chat,” Fox Sports activities quoted de Jong as saying. “I am not anybody to speak about it with him, I am certain he has many individuals round him doing that nowadays,” the midfielder added.
Earlier, the organisers of La Liga had sided with Barcelona as they stated that Messi’s contract with the membership remains to be legitimate. The organisers additionally clarified that if different golf equipment are keen on availing the footballer’s companies, then they have to pay 700 million euros as the discharge clause quantity in full.
This clarification from La Liga got here as Messi sought to make his manner out from Barcelona.
“The contract is at present in pressure and has a ‘termination clause’ relevant to the occasion that Lionel Messi decides to induce the early unilateral termination of the contract, carried out in accordance with article 16 of Royal Decree 1006/1985, of June 26, by which regulates the particular employment relationship {of professional} athletes,” La Liga had stated in an official assertion.
“In compliance with the relevant rules, and following the corresponding process in these instances, La Liga won’t perform the prior visa course of for the participant to be faraway from the federation in the event that they haven’t beforehand paid the quantity of stated clause,” it added.
On Sunday, Messi didn’t present up for Barcelona’s pre-season coronavirus take a look at.
On August 25, Messi had shocked Barcelona by asking the membership to let him go away. Messi had requested Barcelona to activate a clause in his contract which can enable him to depart totally free.
Manchester Metropolis, Inter Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain are the few golf equipment which have proven an curiosity in Messi.
Messi has spent his whole profession with Barcelona and has managed to win Ballon d’Or six occasions.
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Barcelona had been handed an 8-2 drubbing by Bayern Munich within the Champions League quarter-final, and since then, the membership has been going through a disaster.
Head coach Quique Setien and technical supervisor Eric Abidal have already departed and Ronald Koeman was appointed the brand new coach of Barcelona.
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