translated from Spanish: Lionel Messi: “I’m going to stay in Barcelona”

After the information of the last few days, about Lionel Messi’s imminent departure from Barcelona, the Argentine now assured that he will remain at the club.” I would never go to trial against the club of my life, that’s why I’m going to stay at Barcelona,” Messi departed in an interview with Goal.com.Elastro culé stated that “I told the club, above all, the president, that I wanted to leave. I’ve been telling you all year. I thought it was time to step aside.” In the same line, he added that “I believed that the club needed more young people, new people and thought that my time in Barcelona had ended feeling so much because I always said that I wanted to finish my career here”. The Trasandino argued that “it was a very difficult year, I suffered a lot within training, in matches and in the locker room. It all became very difficult for me and there came a time when I thought about looking for new goals, new airs.” Messi said his decision “did not come because of champions’ outcome against Bayern, the decision had been thinking about it for a long time. I told the president and well, the president always said that I at the end of the season could decide if I wanted to leave or if I wanted to stay and in the end did not end up keeping his word.” I always said I wanted to end up here and I always said I wanted to stay here. He wanted a winning project and win titles with the club to continue to enlarge the barcelona legend at the title level,” he added. However, in this same sense he accused that “there has been no project and nothing in a while, juggling and plugging holes as things go by. Like I said before, I always thought about the well-being of my family and the club.” Despite the above, the Argentine stated that “I will continue in Barca and my attitude will not change no more than I have wanted to leave. I’m going to do my best. I always want to win, I’m competitive and I don’t like losing anything. I always want what’s best for the club, for the locker room and for me.” The Rwandan stressed that “I will give the maximum, we will give the maximum to fight for all the objectives and hopefully it will be given and can be dedicated to people who have had a hard time.”

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