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In an interview with Goal, Messi revealed to the world he would stay with Barcelona for one more year, but not because he wanted to.
"I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the [release] clause, and that this is impossible," he said.
"There was another way and it was to go to trial," he added. "I would never go to court against Barca because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived.
"It is the club of my life, I have made my life here.
"Barca gave me everything and I gave it everything. I know that it never crossed my mind to take Barca to court."