Barcelona’s board are insisting any interested club must pay Lionel Messi’s buyout clause if they want to sign him this summer.
Mundo Deportivo says Barcelona will insist that any club wanting to buy Messi before the end of his contract will have to pay his full £631million release clause.
Barca are said to be sticking to Messi’s contractual obligations as they bid to placate the Argentinean, who has one year left on his deal.
Barca have no intention of allowing their captain to leave the club this summer for anything less than is stipulated in his contract, with Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan all linked with the 33-year-old.
Suggestions that Messi remains angry with Barca were rife at the weekend, when it was claimed that the forward was ‘furious’ with the club after details emerged of his meeting with new manager Ronald Koeman, who was appointed last week.
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