Former Barcelona president Rosell worried about Lionel Messi exit

Reports from Cadena Ser radio presenter and journalist Manu Carreno, told the station’s El Larguero programme on Thursday night that the Argentina international has decided to leave the Camp Nou in 2021.

Messi’s contract at the Catalan giants is set to expire in a year’s time and he is now aged 33, so he may see this as his last chance to finish his career elsewhere.

The Argentine superstar has spent the entirety of his career at the Blaugrana and it has long been mentioned that he could opt to retire elsewhere, with a move to his boyhood club Newell’s Old Boys in his homeland previously rumoured.

“If Messi leaves Barcelona it will be very complicated for the club,” Rosell – who was in office as club president between the summer of 2010 and January 2014 – explained in an interview with ESPN Deportes.