With Bartomeu's resignation, does Manchester City's dream to sign Lionel Messi comes to an end?
One of the reasons why Lionel Messi wanted to leave FC Barcelona in the last transfer window was because of his bad relationship with the executives.
It was set to be elections held in March 2021 to decide the next FC Barcelona front-office. Josep Maria Bartomeu knew his destiny was marked and, before the members of the club removed him by vote, he decided to resigned after approximately 1900 days in the head-office. In January 2014, after the resignation of Sandro Rosell, he became the president of F.C. Barcelona and in July 2015 he was elected by the members.
After several days of uncertainty between August and September about the future of Lionel Messi, the greatest idol in the history of Barcelona ended up staying at the club since the club's executives, led by Bartomeu, did not allow him to leave for free, which Messi understood that was allowed by contract.
Thus, given the bad relationship between Messi and Bartomeu, the Argentinian forward continued to want to leave Barcelona to seek new challenges in other soccer leagues and the most powerful clubs in the world were already beginning negotiations to meet his needs in the season 2021-2022.
With the departure of Josep Maria Bartomeu, everything would indicate that the Argentinian finally desists from his decision to leave FC Barcelona and keeps his word to play his whole life there. Thus, the dream of clubs like Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, Paris Saint Germain and Inter Milan.
