The majority of 26,000-plus fans surveyed in an AS poll have said that they disagree with Lionel Messi's decision to stay at Barcelona.

Lionel Messi’s decision to stay at Barcelona has not gone down well with fans. Of the more than 26,000 participants surveyed in an AS poll who were asked: ‘Do you agree with Messi staying at Barcelona?’, 61.6% have said ‘No’, while 38.4% have stated ‘Yes’.

These results indicate the significant loss of support for the Argentine superstar. The soap opera involving Messi and Barcelona – which began early last week after the player sent a burofax demanding to leave the club – ended on Friday when Messi himself confirmed he would stay at Camp Nou in an interview with Goal.

As Barça insisted the only way Messi could leave was through the payment of his €700million release clause, the club's talisman and captain has accepted he has no choice but to stay – as goes his account in the interview.

Read the full Messi interview here.

Messi: “I would never go to court against Barcelona”

“I thought and was sure that I was free to leave, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not. Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before June 10, when it turns out that on June 10 we were competing for LaLiga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered the whole season,” Messi told Goal.

“And this is the reason why I am going to continue in the club. Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the €700million clause, and that this is impossible.

“There was another way and it was to go to trial. I would never go to court against Barça because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived, it is the club of my life, I have made my life here. Barça gave me everything and I gave it everything. I know that it never crossed my mind to take Barça to court."

Messi slams Barcelona president Bartomeu

Barcelona have stayed relatively silent following the interview, apart from a post on their twitter page including a photo of Messi accompanied by a quote from the star: “I will give it my all. My love for Barça will never change.”

But the reality is Messi still wants to leave Barcelona, a fact that was very clear from the star's Goal interview, during which he also made severe criticisms of club president, Josep Bartomeu.

"The burofax was to make it official in some way. Throughout the year I had been telling the president that I wanted to leave, that the time had come to seek new goals and new directions in my career. He told me all the time: 'We'll talk, not now,' this and that, but nothing [happened]. The president did not give me a clue at what he was really saying,” said Messi.

“Sending the burofax was making it official that I wanted to go and that I was free and the optional year – I was not going to use it and I wanted to go. It was not to make a mess, or to go against the club, but the way to make it official because my decision had been made."

Source: https://en.as.com/en/2020/09/05/football/1599293538_619379.amp.html

As a Real Madrid fan, am so happy, it means Barcelona will be have to rely on Messi for yet another season. Even though Messi is an utmost professional and won't run down his contract just walking about the pitch, he is still human and will certainly have his off days.
But as a fan of football, am sad that the GOAT will be stuck in this mediocre Barcelona side for another season.


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It's only the natural option. For his legacy's sake he shouldn't leave like that and risk shattering his legacy like the former real madrid imposter claiming goat.

Enceladus:
It's only the natural option. For his legacy's sake he shouldn't leave like that and risk shattering his legacy like the former real madrid imposter claiming goat.

who told you Ronaldo's legacy is shattered? You deserve slap

theoneJabulani:
who told you Ronaldo's legacy is shattered? You deserve slap

Go and sit-down. You sabi how many madrid and spanish people dey vex for him?

Enceladus:


Go and sit-down. You sabi how many madrid and spanish people dey vex for him?

uncle, how many o

Enceladus:
It's only the natural option. For his legacy's sake he shouldn't leave like that and risk shattering his legacy like the former real madrid imposter claiming goat.

Ronaldo legacy shattered after wining back to back to back champions league....chai who do you this thing.

Enceladus:


Go and sit-down. You sabi how many madrid and spanish people dey vex for him?

Barcelona fans should bare this in mind.... Messi is only staying because he was forced to stay and a great player like Messi should only be made to play because he wants to, just imagine if things don't go well with him and the coach his performance will definitely drop and the coach too made it very clear that he wanted players who really want to be in his project. Now the coach won't get what he wants so is Messi! Barcelona is certainly heading to another disaster!

mynd44

It would have been better..... I can never trust Messi again after failing in many promises

1. He promised to leave Argentina squad after retiring 3 times, but didn't fulfil the promise

2. He promised to bring back UCL to camp nou, yet nothing

3. He promised to leave barcelona, yet he's still there...

He's not stable in his ways at all

Enceladus:
It's only the natural option. For his legacy's sake he shouldn't leave like that and risk shattering his legacy like the former real madrid imposter claiming goat.

to slap u they hungry me, Ronaldo legacy shatter. real Madrid highest goal scorer,assist,4 uafa champion for league for them ,uafa highest goal scorer for them even overall in Europe...

av said it before, its bad business for barca dt claims dey are badly in need of cash because it make no sense keepimg him for just a season when he would still leave for free after some months..
messi have done soo much for barca by winning countless matches and trophies individually, refusing bigger paycheques even when offered a blank cheque and he had paid his dues for barca but its jus too bad dt barca president dt do promise to make him happy at all cost chooses to keep him bcoz of politics and eating his words...humans just have short memories..
what touched me was when he said "they expected me to discuss about the clause in june when la liga was still on" we all know dt such action would destabilize the squad and the barca board still purnished him for not being self centered...

obonujoker:
It would have been better..... I can never trust Messi again after failing in many promises

1. He promised to leave Argentina squad after retiring 3 times, but didn't fulfil the promise

2. He promised to bring back UCL to camp nou, yet nothing

3. He promised to leave barcelona, yet he's still there...

He's not stable in his ways at all

1..he left the squad but they kept on begging him to return and even the president did..
2..he tired his best bt the UCL is more than a team goal than Individual goal and not his fault dt the squad keep failing him..
3..try and watch the interview and see things without sentiments, u would noticed dt he wants to leave bt barca board dnt want to allow him, mayb it would be nice if he discussed dt clause during june when la liga is still hot..
finally messi doesn't know you, a fake trust from one of his numerous haters dont count..

obembet:


Barcelona fans should bare this in mind.... Messi is only staying because he was forced to stay and a great player like Messi should only be made to play because he wants to, just imagine if things don't go well with him and the coach his performance will definitely drop and the coach too made it very clear that he wanted players who really want to be in his project. Now the coach won't get what he wants so is Messi! Barcelona is certainly heading to another disaster!

mynd44

i kno where you are coming from bt messi is a professional and i dnt see any problem with him staying and also after seeeing that interview, i think i blame messi for being too professional about this saga, that clause was meant to be activated in june and thats when la liga resumed and he thought activating dt clause would be like a bomb to the team and dts Y he didnt and dt was his mistake..
a neyma dt i kno would sign papers secretly dt june and easily walk out of barca without problems..

obembet:


These results indicate the significant loss of support for the Argentine superstar. The soap opera involving Messi and Barcelona – which began early last week after the player sent a burofax demanding to leave the club – ended on Friday when Messi himself confirmed he would stay at Camp Nou in an interview with Goal.

As Barça insisted the only way Messi could leave was through the payment of his €700million release clause, the club's talisman and captain has accepted he has no choice but to stay – as goes his account in the interview.

Read the full Messi interview here.
I thought and was sure that I was free to leave, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not. Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before June 10, when it turns out that on June 10 we were competing for LaLiga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered the whole season,” Messi told Goal.

“And this is the reason why I am going to continue in the club. Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the €700million clause, and that this is impossible.

“The burofax was to make it official in some way. Throughout the year I had been telling the president that I wanted to leave,that the time had come to seek new goals and new directions in my career

Even messi knows the important of seeking new challenge....and he was forming local champion since.

Lalasticlala

Benmob:
to slap u they hungry me, Ronaldo legacy shatter. real Madrid highest goal scorer,assist,4 uafa champion for league for them ,uafa highest goal scorer for them even overall in Europe...

Oga spell uefa first.

ojaysam25:

Ronaldo legacy shattered after wining back to back to back champions league....chai who do you this thing.

theoneJabulani:
uncle, how many o

All of you that started watching football in the past decade forming madridsta

Check madrid history with their legends including CR7 from di Stefano to Ronaldo R9, Raul and even Zidane was booed by the real madridistes.

Ok he's still got a very strong legacy but it's funny seeing how the madrid people always manage to treat their fine players.

Enceladus:


Oga spell uefa first.




All of you that started watching football in the past decade forming madridsta

Check madrid history with their legends including CR7 from di Stefano to Ronaldo R9, Raul and even Zidane was booed by the real madridistes.

Ok he's still got a very strong legacy but it's funny seeing how the madrid people always manage to treat their fine players.

Well Ronaldo is a god,no wonder he shattered that trend...Madrid even beg him to come motivate the players so they can win la liga....his legacy will always be intact as the GOAT

obembet:


Barcelona fans should bare this in mind.... Messi is only staying because he was forced to stay and a great player like Messi should only be made to play because he wants to, just imagine if things don't go well with him and the coach his performance will definitely drop and the coach too made it very clear that he wanted players who really want to be in his project. Now the coach won't get what he wants so is Messi! Barcelona is certainly heading to another disaster!

mynd44

Messi wanted to leave because of the president and he is very loyal to Barcelona, trust he will give his all as usual like he's doing for Argentina and with Xavi coming in as manager next season and also a new president next march he might be tempted to stay. The clear out has started in Camp Nou already so the disaster is over rebuilding is the next phase.

And PS am a Red Devil ain't no barca fan.

ojaysam25:

Well Ronaldo is a god,no wonder he shattered that trend...Madrid even beg him to come motivate the players so they can win la liga....his legacy will always be intact as the GOAT

Shattered what trend? Oga was booed many times..

No be only goat nah isi ewu

Enceladus:


Oga spell uefa first.




All of you that started watching football in the past decade forming madridsta

Check madrid history with their legends including CR7 from di Stefano to Ronaldo R9, Raul and even Zidane was booed by the real madridistes.

Ok he's still got a very strong legacy but it's funny seeing how the madrid people always manage to treat their fine players.

Mr man shut it, av been a madrid fan since 97, you cant tell me anything I don't already know. Madridsta can be cruel sometimes and they can never be satisfied. Those guys play a wonderful game this week, they get cheered, next week they have a bad game, they get booed, that's the Bernabeu for you. But that doesn't take away anything from them. Ronaldo's legendary status is arguably only below Di Stefano in Madrid folklore, he is ahead of Puskas, Gento, Satillana, Juanito, Hugo Sanchez, Raul, Zidane(playing career only) and Casillas.

ojaysam25:

Well Ronaldo is a god,no wonder he shattered that trend...Madrid even beg him to come motivate the players so they can win la liga....his legacy will always be intact as the GOAT

where did you hear this trash?

Enceladus:


Shattered what trend? Oga was booed many times..

No be only goat nah isi ewu

Booed by you abi....I guess you did not watch the last classico....only his presence shook the whole stadium...messi that 66% of barca fans don't want him in the club..
Ronaldo will always be the king,left his former clubs as a Goat after back to back to back premier league and champions league..

ojaysam25:

Well Ronaldo is a god,no wonder he shattered that trend...Madrid even beg him to come motivate the players so they can win la liga....his legacy will always be intact as the GOAT

bros abeg easy naa...Madrid beg who to motivate them?? Madrid is too big for that rawbish u are spitting....jus like saying buhari begging wizzy to play for her daughter wedding...

ojaysam25:

Booed by you abi....I guess you did not watch the last classico....only his presence shook the whole stadium...messi that 66% of barca fans don't want him in the club..
Ronaldo will always be the king let his former clubs as a Goat after back to back to back premier league and champions league..

Oga stop spewing rubbish and stop reading some cheap fake a*ss info.

paulolee:

bros abeg easy naa...Madrid beg who to motivate them?? Madrid is too big for that rawbish u are spitting....jus like saying buhari begging wizzy to play for her daughter wedding...

...well you cant dispute the fact,that Ronaldo presence at the last el classico change the dynamics of the match and realmadrid season...the moment he went to the dressing room at half time the game and Madrid already failed season change.

theoneJabulani:
Mr man shut it, av been a madrid fan since 97, you cant tell me anything I don't already know. Madridsta can be cruel sometimes and they can never be satisfied. Those guys play a wonderful game this week, they get cheered, next week they have a bad game, they get booed, that's the Bernabeu for you. But that doesn't take away anything from them. Ronaldo's legendary status is arguably only below Di Stefano in Madrid folklore, he is ahead of Puskas, Gento, Satillana, Juanito, Hugo Sanchez, Raul, Zidane(playing career only) and Casillas.

Agreed nothing to say there. Adios ...

theoneJabulani:
Mr man shut it, av been a madrid fan since 97, you cant tell me anything I don't already know. Madridsta can be cruel sometimes and they can never be satisfied. Those guys play a wonderful game this week, they get cheered, next week they have a bad game, they get booed, that's the Bernabeu for you. But that doesn't take away anything from them. Ronaldo's legendary status is arguably only below Di Stefano in Madrid folklore, he is ahead of Puskas, Gento, Satillana, Juanito, Hugo Sanchez, Raul, Zidane(playing career only) and Casillas

Ronaldo is the GOAT at realmadrid no player comes close...

ojaysam25:

Ronaldo is the GOAT at realmadrid no player comes close...

many people won't agree with that

theoneJabulani:
many people won't agree with that

Well the difference is much no need debating...

ojaysam25:

Well the difference is much no need debating...

do you know how many trophies Stefano won?

theoneJabulani:
do you know how many trophies Stefano won?

He was part of Madrid most successful periods alongside great players....ronaldo is Madrid record goalscorer and provider...how many goals or balor d hor did he win...Ronaldo is Madrid greatest by a margin