Several reports claimed on Friday that Lionel Messi will stay with Barcelona and he will not leave the Camp Nou as he announced before.
In exclusive statements to goal.com,"I thought and was sure that I was free to leave."
"The president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not," he added.
"Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before 10 June, when it turns out that on 10 June we were competing for La Liga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered all the season," Messi noted.
"And this is the reason why I am going to continue in the club," the Argentinian captain explained. "Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the 700m clause, and that this is impossible."
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