Barcelona top player, Lionel Messi was reported wants to leave the club as soon as possible after the teams’s failure in the Champions League.
The shocking news came after Barca’s 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the recent Champions League quarter-finals. This caused Messi to consider his future with his team and wanted a way out immediately after felt frustrated by the lack of planning at the club.
According to the Mirror UK, Messi is said to feel ‘isolated’ after Barcelona repeatedly failed in the Champions League and their disappointment in La Liga when Real Madrid overtook them for the La Liga title.
It is believed that Manchester City were in a good position to land the popular footballer if he left the Nou Camp. City’s would pay with a huge amount of money to take Messi and reunite him with Pep Guardiola at Etihad.
The 6 time Ballon d’Or winner has a clause in his contract that allows him to leave for free at the end of every season. But, the contract expired at the end of May.
It is said that he has battling Barcelona’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu and the Nou Camp hierarchy for a year regarding the direction the club is going.
Source: Mirror UK, Sport Bible