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Lionel Messi’s father, who acts as his agent, downplays the star’s hints of leaving Barcelona
Original Publication Date: November 18, 2014 10:08PM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 9:31PM
BARCELONA, Spain – Lionel Messi’s father, who acts as the player’s agent, has downplayed the stir his son caused by hinting at an exit from Barcelona.
Jorge Messi tells Barcelona-based La Vanguardia newspaper “the plan is to stay here, but since people read between the lines they exaggerate.”
He says “Leo is happy, but if one day the club says, ‘We have an offer for you, we want to sell you,’ well, we would have to study it.”
Lionel Messi said Tuesday that he would like to stay at Barcelona but “sometimes not everything happens the way you want.”
The 27-year-old Messi, Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer, is under contract until 2018.
Last May, Barcelona said it had improved the terms of his contract.
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