The burofax with which Messi asked to leave Barça is made public

The publication of the famous burofax that Leo Messi sent asking to leave Barcelona in August 2020 confirms that the Argentine player then wanted to go free, taking advantage of the argument that because of the coronavirus the season had ended beyond June.

In Messi’s last contract with Barça, which was signed in 2017, clause 3.1 was included, by which the footballer could go free, without claiming just cause, at the end of the 2019-20 season provided that he communicates it to the club before June 10, 2020.

But in the burofax, which has revealed ‘Mundo Deportivo’, Messi argued the following: “I understand that the time frame of the right of unilateral termination without alleging cause that regulates the aforementioned clause must be interpreted in accordance with the exceptional circumstances in which it has been developed the season “.

Thus, the current player of Paris Saint-Germain wielded that “Due to this exception, the 2019-2020 competition season ended yesterday (the burofax was sent on August 24), without prejudice to the fact that for “Barça” this completion took place on August 15 “after the elimination of the Champions League against Bayern Munich.

Messi considered that the season officially ended on August 23, the day that the final of the maximum continental competition between Bayern and PSG was played in Lisbon, which would end up winning the first.

For this reason, the former Barça player He asked to have his contract terminated on August 30. But the then Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu he refused to make the request effective because it considered that the exceptionality of the coronavirus pandemic did not modify clause 3.1 and that the term to benefit from it had ended two and a half months earlier.

Faced with this refusal, and arguing that he did not want to take the club of his life to court, Messi announced on September 4, 2020 that he would continue at Barça.