Messi is willing to stay at Barcelona, but he wants his contract to be more flexible. He wants his €700m release clause lowered to €10,000, so he can leave wherever and whenever he wants. Practically, this value is tantamount to no release clause at all.
This is the second condition that Barca refused.
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