Lionel Messi planning to leave Barcelona

 

Lionel Messi who is listed to be one of the best  footballer is planning to leave barcelona. Since after a heavy defeat from munich of 8-2 . he has been really affected . There are been lot of rumour that Messi is moving to manchester city who has got enough budget to hold and but the barcelona Star forward.

Lionel Messi’s bombshell request to leave Barcelona is expected to spark a legal battle over a multi-million-dollar buy-out clause but also raises the question of which club could afford him in the heat of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Messi’s priority has always been to be part of a “winning project” at Camp Nou, and newly-appointed sporting director Ramon Planes on Wednesday hailed the Argentinian as a “winner” the Catalan club was working hard to keep.
  Messi is Barca’s record scorer and helped the club amass four Champions League titles, 10 La Liga titles and six Copa del Rey trophies.
  Barcelona’s latest season, however, was not only devoid of trophies (for the first time since 2008), it was also defined by chaos and ended in humiliation with a 8-2 Champions League quarter-final defeat by eventual champions Bayern Munich.
The 33-year-old Messi, a six-time Ballon d’Or winner, has not asked for a transfer so he can his feet up for the final years of his career.
This is a considered move aimed at adding to his successes, and in one competition in particular—the Champions League.
Those able both to afford Messi, who has a reported weekly salary of nearly one million euros, and convince him, may only be Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, with Inter Milan a third, more distant option.
  City would appear favourites, but the club have always trodden carefully around the question of Messi.
For PSG, whose frustration in Europe has been comparable to City’s, even though the French club broke new ground by reaching last weekend’s final, Messi would also represent a seismic addition to the Qatari project.
  A Neymar-Messi-Kylian Mbappe front three would not be a difficult sell. Staying at Barcelona remains a possibility, however, particularly if under-pressure president Josep Maria Bartomeu resigns.
  Bartomeu’s new sporting director Ramon Planes, named in place of Eric Abidal a day after Quique Setien was sacked as manager following the Bayern defeat, said on Wednesday that Messi’s want-away demand was “a very important story”.
  “But our idea at the club is still to build a new winning cycle around the best player in the world. We are not contemplating any kind of departure because what we want is for Messi to stay.” Planes added: “You have to have enormous respect for what Messi is and for his history.
  “I think the future is positive. I am an optimist. We need experienced players, like Leo Messi... We are putting every effort into ensuring that the relationship between Barca and Messi will continue. We are working internally to convince Leo.”
Barcelona are understood to believe Messi’s release clause expired in June, and that he remains under contract until the end of the 2021 season.
amounts to 700 million euros ($828 million).”
Messi joined Barcelona’s youth academy at the age of 13 and made his debut in 2004 as a 17-year-old, before going on to score a club-record 634 goals.