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Barcelona striker Lionel Messi insisted yesterday he remains committed to the club despite a disappointing trophy-less season but would only stay on as long as it felt “affection” for him.
Messi agreed a new contract with the club worth a reported 20 million euros ($27.4 million) net a year just last week. However, he was booed by certain sections of the Camp Nou crowd as Barcelona narrowly missed out on winning La Liga after a 1-1 home draw to Atletico Madrid.
“It is the people of (Football Club) Barcelona who will decide my future but my decision is to continue since I still sense that they feel affection for me,” the Argentine star wrote on the Chinese online messaging platform Weibo.
“But if that were not the case I would look for a solution, because I will always want the best for this club.” Messi said it had been a “hard year, personally and as a group”, and apologised to fans, promising to do better next season.
“We had an opportunity to achieve an aim in the last match and we did not manage to seize it,” he wrote in his message.
“I just want to say sorry to all the Barcelona fans and promise them that this coming year we will do justice to the club and achieve big things.”
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