Barcelona 's embattled president Josep Maria Bartomeu appeared on the club's in-house television channel to declare that “Messi wants to end his career at Barca”.
On Tuesday, Lionel Messi had a burofax sent to the club he has represented for almost two decades to inform Bartomeu that he did indeed want to end his career at Barca.
With immediate effect. The message, delivered via a form of secure business communication popular in Spain, was that Barcelona's most important professional, one of the two best footballers in the world for the majority of his Camp Nou career, had had enough.Messi had held his silence after Barca's latest debilitating Champions League exit; an 8-2 excoriation at the hands of Bayern Munich.He'd listened from afar as.
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