Lionel Messi calls for Barcelona truce after summer transfer saga and insists unity will return to Camp Nou

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Ben Hayward30 September 2020

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has sent out a message of unity after the summer saga which almost saw him leave the Catalan club.

Messi told Barca he wanted to move in the summer, only to end up staying when he was informed he would not be able to walk away for free and would face a legal battle with the Blaugrana.

The Argentine attacker then criticised the club's board again after the sale of his friend Luis Suarez to Atletico Madrid last week, but has now called a truce.

"After so many disagreements, I would like to draw a line," he told Sport. "All of us Barcelona fans must unite and assume that the best is yet to come.

"This team will give its best with the sole objective of achieving the joys that football always brings, especially to these people, our fans, who deserve it so much."

The six-time Ballon d'Or winner also admitted his own errors and claimed his only objective was to help the club and the team.

"We must leave aside our differences," he said. "I particularly assume my mistakes that, if they existed, were only to make a better and stronger FC Barcelona.

"But that's that. Everything happened, we must [now] concentrate on doing the best possible and achieving everything we can achieve together, as a team and as a fan base: combining passion and enthusiasm will be the only way to achieve our objectives, always united and rowing in the same direction."

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