From the Burofax to the last goodbye, the chronology of the historical departure of Barcelona's Messiah

In the middle of the afternoon, with the pages of tomorrow's newspaper already confronted and the scenarios of written and ready night programming, the news bomb jumps. “Leo Messey sent a scholarship to Barca for the evacuation”, the Periscope broadcast.

The first reaction was distrust, but as the minutes, perhaps hours passed and the information was rejected, the existence and the sending of the document was confirmed.

Argentina considered that he had contractual rights to resolve his relationship with the Barca club unilaterally, and this was told Josep María Bartholomew, then Barça's president. The performance of the contract, which ended up at Mess's legal counsel, followed.

There was a date in the contract, June 10th, as the deadline for Leo to communicate his unilateral conclusion and that date had passed.

The player and his lawyers considered that the pandemic and the extraordinary causes leading up to the season later lasted that period, but literally the contract was what it was, Bartholomew held to it and managed to keep the Mess in Barcelona because the only way out was to pay 700 million euros for the clause.

Messie stood against his will after confessing to several interviews in which he broke the silence, and with an electoral view near the corner he delayed his decision to continue or not while awaiting a new one from the presidential election.

On January 1, 2021, he was free to negotiate, even sign, for every club after his relationship with Barcelona expired in six months, but Mess focused on the sports level and the fight for all titles in progress, pushing the issue of the future to the end of the season. SPG appeared as the most interested club, with Manchester City always shaking her head, while putting on a lot of pressure to offer astronomical amounts to the player, but Messie, at least from the outside door, did not participate in those voices.

The elections were held, in which Messi participated in voting as Barca's partner, Joan Laporta won and some information showed a call on the same day of elections with Jorge Messin, the player's father, to approach his positions. Immediately after taking office, on March 17, Laporta ate with Leo Messin to expose his intentions, and the Argentinian, who sat at the table with his head outside, came to the sweets with the idea of staying.

In these months, there has been a row between the parties as a result of the club's economic weakness, high numbers of the Argentinean contract, and the difficulty of adopting the new document to the extent of Barça's first team's salary.

The final extent of this long story was painted by conflicting versions of official announcement.

With everyone assuming that Messy would continue, and with his environment ensuring there was nothing 100% determined, what the media were getting and the talks on this subject was the day he was going to be official. What if before you went to the U.S. Cup, what if the birthday of Leos (June 24th), what if President Laporta (29 June)'s anniversary ... was very much talked about this topic, but the truth is that, finally, with the Messiah in Barcelona from vacation and the champion of Copa América, and when everyone expected a happy ending, this Thursday, August 5, he communicated that the break was complete and final and that the middle would no longer wear the Barcelona fan. /Periscope. com/