SER: Messi stops his renovation and wants to leave in June 2021

As reported by Manu Carreño in 'El Larguero' on Cadena SER, Leo Messi has halted negotiations with the Blaugrana club to renew, something that seemed to be on track according to his father's first conversations with Bertomeu, and he currently intends to leave Barça when his contract ends in June 2021. Messi had until last June 10 the possibility of leaving Barcelona simply announcing that he was leaving. By not doing so, the Argentine player was still tied to the contract he signed with the club on November 25, 2017, which bound him to the club until June 30, 2021, except that he could unilaterally break his contract a month ago.

SER assures that the striker is tired of all the problems around the club, of the interested leaks, of the rarefied environment that surrounds the squad and, above all, that certain sectors always blame him for everything bad that happens at the Camp Nou. Messi has shared his satiety with his closest circle, assuring that he does not want to be attributed more responsibilities than he has on the field of play. Messi, always according to this information, has even confessed his plans to the hard core of the locker room.

The information contrasts with the information that came from within the club, Where they assured that Barcelona was calm with the renewal of Messi, according to which President Bartomeu and the player's father, Jorge Messi, were already starting to lay the foundations around a renewal until 2023 under the same formula that was applied. In other words, the player could unilaterally cut the link with the club by giving notice before June 30. According to SER, the reason for this decision would be Messi's satiety in the face of the club's erratic sports policy, which has failed to surround the Argentine with the best partners. The differences with the sports management, with public criticism of Éric Abidal, and his disagreements with Setién are notorious in addition to not understanding why the club did not recover Neymar. In addition, SER adds that the player has felt singled out for the team's latest poor results in which from some media and, as he interprets from the board, he is blamed for influencing the lineups and forcing his ownership and that of the players of his rope such as Luis Suárez or Arturo Vidal to the detriment of Antoine Griezmann.

Messi scored against Atlético his 700 goal and this season he still has important challenges such as achieving LaLiga (difficult after Madrid's victory over Getafe) and the Champions League, but the last friction with Setién and Eder Sarabia, and especially the criticism received for their behavior with the coaching staff and the leaks about private conversations, could have just worn him down. This movement could unleash many others immediately, since the elections for the Barça presidency could be brought forward so that the new president tries to avoid an exit that would be a tremendous stick for Barça and for Spanish football. Messi intended to continue longer if the physique and the situation of the club were on his side. For now, he has changed his mind and does not want to renew his contract with Bartomeu.

In any case, it is a new gap in the Barcelona boat, which lives critical hours. Messi already warned months ago that the team did not give enough to win the Champions, an idea that Setien contested in public and that Messi responded again saying that he had played more Champions. Now, with Madrid escaped the leaderboard with four points, LaLiga seems to be getting impossible too and Messi is starting to get fed up and can see, according to SER, the end of his career.