HAHA, true. People who say Massi will bought by activating his buyout clause,forget about taxes in Spain that go along with it. There's no way some team will pay 360M for him (plus salary). He only goes out if he forces the issue, and I highly doubt he'd do that.
Also Chelsea is in fact not that rich club now. With FFP, Abramovic can't feed them money like he used in past. Mourinho said something in that regard in summer.
I don't think its as black and white as that. It's an amalgamation of many factors that would lead to him leaving. So first up, it's clear that Messi doesn't want to leave, he feels he is being forced out, or let's put it this way, the board is not exactly resisting selling him (that's the hypothesis). If that's the case, then the board wants to cash in on him, in which case Messi will obviously want to leave if he doesn't have the boards support. Add to this mix a rich club who are desperate to buy him - And you have a situation where all parties want the same thing.
Which would mean that Barca would obviously be ready to negotiate the price, rather than stick to 250, probably around 150 or so and offer a yearly payment method or some sort of flexible thing that Chelshit can actually afford. And you know these scumbags are going to have some shady underhand deals to pocket a lot of money.