Messi has option to leave Barca next summer

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s club president has confirmed that Lionel Messi would have the right to leave the club at the end of this season, as stipulated in his contract.
Spanish newspaper El País reported Thursday that Messi’s current contract with Barcelona includes the option for the soccer great to unilaterally end his stay in the summer of 2020.
Club president Josep Bartomeu said late Friday that “Leo Messi has a contract through 2020-21, but before t