The club has told Messi that president Josep Bartomeu will resign if that is what it takes to keep the playmaker, but Barcelona said on Friday there was no word yet from Messi on the offer.
Earlier this week, Messi told the club and his teammates about his intention to leave Barcelona this summer despite having a contract until 2021.
Lionel Messi's decision to leave Barcelona has sparked unlikely dreams in residents of Rosario, that he would return to play for his boyhood club, Newell's Old Boys.
Barcelona were basing their revamp on Messi, hoping he would help the team rebuild with new players and a new coach. But the type of changes the team began implementing may have actually turned him away.
As the speculation over his next club begins to take shape and Barcelona attempting to every bit in their hands to stop the legend, we bring you some of the extraordinary numbers from Messi's glorious career at Camp Nou.
Messi is trying to force a move after 20 years with Barcelona, which wants to hold him to a contract that runs through June 2021.
A day after the Argentine great told the club he wants to leave, Barcelona said its restructuring project still revolves around the player.
Messi on Tuesday informed the club and his teammates on his intention to leave this summer, despite having a contract until 2021.
The announcement comes 11 days after Barcelona’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, one of the worst defeats in the player’s career and in the club’s history.
Neither the club nor the coach have said publicly who is staying and who is leaving, but those four players reportedly have already been told that they are not in Koeman’s plans.
Barcelona's record signing spent this season at Bayern after struggling to make an impact in the previous 18 months at the Camp Nou.
Suarez's contract at the Camp Nou is due to expire at the end of June 2021 and the 33-year-old's lawyers will presumably speak to the club to try to rescind that deal to allow him to become a free agent.
Following the conclusion of Juventus and Barcelona's Champions League campaigns, Pjanic was now free to join the club, but he will not yet travel to Barcelona after testing positive for the deadly virus.
Messi hasn’t made any public statement since Barcelona's 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals last week, putting in doubt his permanence with the struggling Catalan club.
As a player, Koeman helped Barcelona clinch its first European title by scoring an extra-time winner in a final nearly two decades ago, and now the former defender is set to return to try to lift the club from its current crisis.
Bartomeu claims that the Argentine superstar is untouchable and non-transferable. The 57-year-old also listed the players who will not be put for sale in the transfer window this season.
Bartomeu said in an interview with Barça TV that negotiations with the Dutchman are advanced but that a deal had yet to be signed.
Barcelona said the club and Abidal "have reached an agreement for the ending of the contract that united the two parties.”
The club is also promising “wide-ranging” and “profound” structural changes after one of its most humiliating defeats ever — the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Friday.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen said doctors suggested the tendon surgery as a “clean-up as there were some irritations earlier this season.”
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