Today they fulfil two years since the FC Barcelona announced the exit of Lionel Messi in front of the difficulties that had the club to inscribe his renewal in LaLiga. It was the goodbye more 'traumatic' because the rosarino already had accessed to go down the wage in 50% and, in definite, had put a lot of eases to be still in the City Condal. It left to the Paris Saint-Germain, where contested two seasons, for finally finish in the Inter Miami.
The true is that a year before the exit of Messi, the player already had tried to leave and sent a burofax to the managerial culé, in that then chaired by Josep María Bartomeu, to communicate his intention to put an end to his stage in the Camp Nou. 'The Flea' did to cost the clause that had his agreement that allowed him take the unilateral decision to abandon the Barça to final of season. As that was the campaign of the COVID-19 and delayed the competitions, understood that had margin, but from the Barcelona entity insisted in that no and closed the folder so that it remained .
Messi could play in the City of Pep Guardiola
In this moment, in any case, the rosariono had real options to leave of the club because it was very dissatisfied with the decisions of the directors and felt prepared to assume a new challenge after 'happen' all the life in the City Condal. In this moment, several clubs showed interest in doing with his incorporation, like the Manchester City, Inter of Milan, the Paris Saint-Germain or the own Inter Miami... But they would have been the ones of Pep Guardiola those that were more near to complete his traspaso.
As it has confirmed André Cury, agent of Vitor Roque and of different footballers and that also was in the Barça, the English put on the table an offer 'rompedora' to do with his services: "When Messi wanted to go of the FC Barcelona in 2020, the Manchester City offered 200 million euros to the Barça, but refused this offer because they did not want that it went ", confessed to the newspaper 'ACE' recently. Finally, it remained a year more in the City Condal before putting course to Paris.