Messi’s era at Barcelona comes to an end

Barcelona confirmed in a statement released on social networks that Lionel Messi will not continue “linked to the club”, “despite having reached an agreement and with the intention of signing a new contract, it will not be possible to formalize due to economic and structural obstacles”.

Lionel Messi’s continuity at Barcelona became “practically impossible” this Thursday after a meeting that was intended to be understood as a courtesy to close the last bangs of the agreement between the two parties ended in an absolute rupture, which a few hours later was confirmed by the club, which credited the end of Messi’s era to the “Spanish LaLiga regulations”.

The Argentine crack arrived in Barcelona on Wednesday pending contacts between his advisors and club executives, but already far from accepting the postulates of the entity. The player’s father landed late in the morning, while a meeting was already taking place in the offices in which Barcelona’s representatives began to understand that the difficulties to close the deal were becoming unaffordable and in the early afternoon the matter was considered broken.

The key to explain the unexpected outcome was to be found, more than in the economic conditions offered to Messi in his new contract, in the lack of a solid sporting project in his opinion, in addition to several points of the contract that he did not find acceptable.

Although in the last weeks a message of optimism was conveyed from Barcelona, articulated by the speeches of Joan Laporta himself, from the player’s side an evident coldness was always maintained, stating that there was much “still” to be discussed and specified. Waiting for the club to be able to fit Leo’s salary into the necessary salary reduction of the squad, it was hoped that the matter would be solved with a last meeting pending “small details”…. Which finally turned out to be insurmountable disagreements.

Thus ends a wonderful era in soccer not only in Spain, but worldwide, with the departure of Messi to a destination that, all indications are that it would be PSG.