It seems Barca have given up the fight for Messi

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There have been many rumors, but now it may seem definitive that Lionel Messi will leave Barcelona after this season.

In any case, the Daily Mirror believes to know that the Catalan big club has now definitively given up the fight to keep their Argentine world star in the club.

The media writes that Barcelona's coach, Ronald Koeman, allegedly should have agreed to let Messi go after this season.

However, it would hardly be the big surprise if the six-time Ballon d'Or winner were to leave the Catalan.

Already last season the waves went high when Lionel Messi was out with fierce criticism of the club's management, and this season the Argentine has once again longed for the club's top seats.

I was not happy and wanted to leave. I have not been allowed so I want to stay in the club so it does not become a legal issue. The club's management, led by Bartomeu, is a disaster. The truth is that there has been no project for a long time. The management is just patching holes and letting things go, Messi told goal.com in September.

Lionel Messi was also heavily linked with a move to Manchester City, where he could be reunited with Pep Guardiola, with whom he celebrated great triumphs earlier in his career in Barcelona.

Messi's contract with Barcelona expires next summer, and everything points in the direction that the Argentine talisman is a thing of the past in the Spanish big club after this season.