This is bad news for everyone except Bartomeu.
Messi clearly wants to leave and now is doing an about face only because nobody will pay not just 700m, But not even perhaps 100m to 150m. He is staying reluctantly, he is not happy and likely will sulk next season, his contribution will be a huge question mark. And now he is making himself look good in the media to portray himself that he has told the club he wanted to go many times throughout this season and he is only staying because he doesn’t want to take the club to court. Wow, the Messi camp finally is getting sophisticated with the PR stuff.
The club loses out big time because it is going to be the same old shit, aka business as usual for one more season, with no real changes and an undermined and handicapped Koeman in charge. The rebuild gets delayed and we are letting Messi walk for free in 2021.
So the only one happy is Bartomeu. And perhaps some die hard Messi fans.
Fuck this shit.