Lionel Messi confirms in an interview that he'll be staying at Barcelona for another season.
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— Messi: "I wasn't happy, I wanted to leave. I have not been allowed and I will stay at the club to not get into a legal dispute. The management of the club led by Bartomeu is a disaster."

— Messi: "I would never take the club of my life to court. That is why I'm staying."

— Messi: "I will continue at at Barcelona and my attitude will not change, no matter how much I have wanted to leave."

— Messi: "The truth is that there is no project at this club. They just plug holes as and when things happen. I would never go for a war against the club of my life. That's why I'm staying."

— Messi: "I have been telling Bartomeu all year that I want to leave."

— Messi: "I told to the club, to the president in particular, that I wanted to leave. They know this since the start of the past season. I told them during all last 12 months. But I will stay here because I don't want to start a legal war".

— Messi: "I believed that the club needed new and young players, and I believed my time here was over."

— Messi: "I really felt very sorry because I always said that I wanted to end my career here. It was a difficult year. I suffered a lot in training and matches and in the dressing room."

— Messi: "When I told my family that I wanted to leave Barcelona, everyone started crying."

— Messi: "Thiago was crying because he did not want to leave. I kept telling him that it is very difficult."

— Messi: “I love Barcelona and I'm not going to find a better place than here anywhere. Still, I have the right to decide. I was going to look for new goals and new challenges. And tomorrow I could go back, because here in Barcelona I have everything.”

— Messi: "The truth is that I decided to stay because I put this club before everything else."

— Messi: "Bartomeu always told me that I can decide my future at the end of each season. But he hasn't kept his word. Now he's saying I had to communicate it by 10th June. At that time, we were still competing for La Liga, in the middle of a pandemic."

— Messi: "Barça gave me everything and I gave it everything. I know that it never crossed my mind to take Barça to court."

— Messi: "My son, my family, they grew up here and are from here. There was nothing wrong with wanting to leave. I needed it, the club needed it and it was good for everyone. My wife, with all the pain of her soul, supported and accompanied me."

— Messi: "Everybody knows that I can make more money elsewhere, but money is not my goal."

— Messi: "It hurt me when my love for this club was questioned. My love for Barca will never change."

— Messi: "I feel hurt by things that I heard from people, from journalism, from people questioning my love for my club. It also helped me to see who is who. There are many very false people."

— Messi: "It doesn't matter when I leave or for how long I stay; my love for Barça is everlasting."

— Messi: "The decision I had made was very difficult, but it wasn't a result of the match against Bayern. There were many factors. I said before that I want to retire here, but there is no project to win titles and trophies."