straight to your inboxManchester City are the odds-on favourite to be Lionel Messi's next club.The bombshell dropped on Tuesday night that Messi has told Barcelona that he wants to leave the club after 16 glorious years.The announcement comes just 11 days following Barca's humiliating 8-2 demolition at the hands of Bayern Munich to send them crashing out of the Champions League at the quarter-final stage and amid growing frustrations with the club's board and president Josep Maria Bartomeu.It's reported that the 33-year-old has sent documents to the Barcelona hierarchy informing them of his desire to leave and asked for them to accept a clause in his contract which would allow him to depart for nothing.However, that seems to be a sticking.
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