Bartomeu: 'Letting Messi leave was a historical mistake'
"I repeat what I have said on several instances, letting Leo Messi leave, the best player in history, was a historical mistake," Diario Sport quote former Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu saying.
Bartomeu should climb off his high horse in this case, because Messi ended up leaving the club mostly because of him.
It was his poor management of the club that left Barca penniless after the pandemic.
Bartomeu's only bragging right is not letting Messi leave in 2020. But the transfer didn't happen because Leo didn't want to take the club to court and not because the president convinced him to stay.
Source: Diario Sport