Lionel Messi ended his contract with Barcelona and is a free player

Lionel messi He is a footballer without a club. So simple and so clear. On July 1, his contract with Barcelona expired without his renewal being made official. In addition, twenty years (exactly 7 thousand 504 days) after he signed his first relationship with the Barça club on a paper napkin. Now he is not tied to anyone.

“We are making all the efforts that we can so that it stays … We have to fit it into the financial ‘fair play’ and although I would like to say that Leo it remains, at the moment I cannot because we are in the process of finding the best solution “, Joan Laporta warned in statements to Onda Cero this same night, admitting that the definitive solution is still not a reality.

“Basically it is a matter of financial ‘fair play'”, resolved the president of Barcelona, ​​who has seen all his wishes proclaimed in recent months. Even in recent weeks when he proposed up to three ideal dates to close the matter, they came to nothing and the season ended without being able to officially announce the continuity of the Argentine star.

Optimism is maintained at the Camp Nou, proclaiming that the best news is that Leo himself wants to continue as Barça player and that the harmony between the two parties, despite the fact that the agreement has not been finalized, is very good. “Leo wants to continue at Barça,” Laporta said in an attempt to calm any symptoms of concern in the environment … But, invariably, at this point, this concern exists, no matter how much the club’s offices maintain the tranquility.

FRINGES … AND CONSEQUENCES

The conversations between the executives of Barcelona, ​​under the leadership of the president, his economic vice president Eduard Romeu and with the collaboration of the football director Mateu Alemany, and Leo Messi’s advisers, under the orders of his father Jorge, have progressed in the last weeks and bringing all the positions closer.

Barcelona is in need of ostensibly lowering its salary mass and that is where both the captain’s new salary and the tax treatment that his contract will have must be fitted, which being two seasons as a first-team player, it will be extended further in time to defer the remuneration to be received.

From here … What is Messi’s situation? What is the role of Barcelona with respect to him? Being something that is not contemplated, the law itself allows to think that Leo could immediately sign a contract with the club he wanted, be it PSG or any other.

Barcelona, ​​for its part, cannot use Messi’s image, for example, in advertising its new shirts or sign contracts with sponsors using his figure, a circumstance that it hopes to solve with the utmost urgency, aware of the impact that The Argentine star has in all negotiations with companies that want to associate with the Barça club.