Lionel Messi will not attend Barcelona training on Monday, Spanish media report

Lionel Messi won’t take a deliberate pre-season coronavirus test on Sunday or return to coaching on Monday after his shock announcement earlier this week that he needs to depart Barcelona, Spanish media reported on Saturday. Spanish sports activities paper Marca stated Messi was “going to war” along with his lifelong membership by making the choice.

La Vanguardia reported Messi will ship one other burofax, the strategy by which he instructed the membership he wished to depart, to tell them of his determination to not be part of his workforce mates for the primary coaching session underneath new coach Ronald Koeman.

A burofax is a service utilized in Spain to urgently dispatch a doc by means of an authorized electronic mail, which points a digital certificates with authorized validity.

La Vanguardia reported the letter will probably be signed by Jorge Messi, the participant’s father and agent, and Messi has already instructed Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu of his determination.

Messi knowledgeable the membership on Tuesday he wished to depart instantly, plunging Barca into contemporary turmoil lower than two weeks after its humiliating 8-2 Champion’s League defeat by Bayern Munich.

According to Spanish media, attorneys representing Messi have stated he doesn’t must attend coaching as he has already expressed his want to depart the membership and due to this fact his contract has ended.

They are invoking a clause within the four-year contract, signed in 2017, which might have allowed Messi to depart the membership without spending a dime if he had requested it by June 10.

They will argue that that date – nominally the top of the season – is now irrelevant after the coronavirus delays that led to the season’s extension and the workforce enjoying deep into August.

Under the phrases of the contract which expires in 2021, the one means Messi can depart with out the membership’s consent is that if a rival facet pays his launch clause of 700 million euros ($833 million).

Speculation has been rife over doable locations for Messi, with favourites so-far together with Manchester City, PSG and Inter Milan.