Messi hands in Barcelona transfer request

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By David Awopetu

Lionel Messi has reportedly told Barcelona he wants to leave the club immediately.

The 33-year-old Argentine international, sent a fax to the club on Tuesday saying he wishes to exercise a clause in his contract, allowing him to leave for free with immediate effect.

Barca was beat 8-2 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals on 16 August.

Messi, who has spent his entire career at the club after joining in 2000 as a youth player, has a contract with the Catalans until 2021.

The six-time Ballon d’Or winner made his debut for Barca in 2004 and has won the Champions League four times.

The board will meet soon and some consider the only thing that could placate Messi is the resignation of the president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and early elections. But the Argentine seems determined to leave the club no matter what.

A legal battle is now set to follow between the club and the player. Messi had a clause in his contract, which allowed him to leave for free, if he informed the club of his desire before 10 June.

That date has now passed so Barcabelievese the clause has expired but Messi and his team feel it should be extended to cover the prolonged season – which ran until August due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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