straight to your inboxGerard Pique has urged Lionel Messi to stay at Barcelona, insisting that the club will do everything it can to convince the superstar attacker to sign a new contract.The 33-year-old is out of contract in the summer and can discuss terms of a pre-contract agreement with foreign clubs from January.He has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester City and the Blues believe they would be at the front of the queue to land him were he to leave Catalonia.
Negotiations over a new deal are yet to begin as Barca wait for a new president to be elected following the resignation of Josep Maria Bartomeu in October.Speaking at a Q&A session for the CRIS Cancer Foundation, Pique said he was hopeful a new contract can be agreed.
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