Messi: "When I communicated my wish to leave to my wife and children, it was a brutal drama. The whole family began crying, my children did not want to leave Barcelona, nor did they want to change schools.
I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, compete in the UCL. You can win or lose in it, because it is very difficult, but you have to compete. At least compete for it and let us not fall apart in Rome, Liverpool, Lisbon. All that led me to make a decision.
I thought I was free to leave... 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 La Liga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered all the season.
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 €700m clause, and that this is impossible. There was another way and it was to go to trial.
I'd never go to court against Barca 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. Barca gave me everything, I gave it everything. I know that it never crossed my mind to take Barca to court.
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