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Josep Maria Bartomio, president of Barcelona, said the club was working on a plan to deal with the situation after the retirement of the team leader, Lionel Messi.
Barcelona has been very active during the transfer periods of recent years and Bartomeo has achieved three of the six largest transactions of all time.
The last Barcelona contract was the signature of French striker Antoine Grizmann of Atletico Madrid for 120 million euros.
Bartomeo said that these agreements were part of the Barcelona plan to compensate for the absence of Messi, who had won the five-time Golden Ball best player in the world, upon his retirement.
Although nothing indicates that Messi, 32, wants to retire soon, the Catalan club insists that he can continue to succeed as soon as his Argentine striker has retired.
"We think it's our job to work for the post-Messi phase," Bartomeo said in an interview with Reuters.
He continued:
"We are thinking of the post-retirement phase of Messi because we bring in new players, we have to think about this step and I hope as club president to stay with us as long as possible."
Messi is not available for Barcelona Japan after a long break after his participation at Copa America, but he will join the team in the second half of the season in the US next month.
Moving expenses of Grizzmann
Bartomio denied Atletico Madrid's claims that the Catalan club would not have paid the full penalty clause for the Grisman transfer.
Javier Tibas, president of the Spanish league, said on Wednesday that Atletico Madrid had asked the badociation to prevent the transfer of the French striker to Barcelona as a result of. a dispute between the two clubs because of the value of the agreement.
"Atletico does not have the right." A few days ago, I was asked the same question in Barcelona and I replied: "There is nothing, it's not a problem. is perfectly normal, "said Bartomeo.
He continued:
"Usually, when a player changes clubs, the club that does not want to lose the player behaves this way, as it happens at home when we want a player who wants to leave and stay true to his survival."
"But there is nothing, it happens in football, it happens between clubs, I do not see any problem."
Grizmann is currently in Barcelona with Japan and should play for the second time in Barcelona against Japanese Vesel Kobe on Saturday.
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