The current Messi contract is calculated until 2021 and includes a buy-out clause in the amount of 700 million euros, in order to accurately deter the Argentine from moving to another club.

Nevertheless, even such a huge amount does not allow the leadership of Barca to say with confidence that Lionel will finish his career at the Camp Nou.

"We have established a clausulum, which, in our opinion, is sufficient to enable Messi to complete his career in Barcelona," said the financial director of the Catalans Pancho Schroder.

"Nevertheless, the same thing we thought a year ago in the case of Neimar. We thought that the amount of compensation prescribed in his contract is enough to keep him, but everything turned out to be completely different ".

"Thinking about the future, it seems to me that it will be difficult to acquire Messi. Nevertheless, I do not have a ball that predicts the future, because I can not guarantee anything, especially in the current crazy times, "- summed up Pancho.

Recall that in the summer of 2017, Neimar moved to PSG for the amount of compensation in his contract of 222 million euros.

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