Interim Barcelona president Carles Tusquets said Thursday he would have sold Argentine star Lionel Messi in the summer.
Messi made an attempt to leave Barcelona this summer before backing down saying he wouldn’t want to get into a legal battle with “the club of his life”.
He can talk to other clubs in January and leave for free when his contract expires in June, with Manchester City expected to make a renewed attempt to lure the 33-year-old away from Camp Nou.
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“From an economic point of view, I would have sold Messi this summer. Economically, that would have been desirable,” Tusquets told Catalan radio Rac1.
“La Liga imposes salary caps and that would have helped us,” Tusquets said when asked what a potential transfer would have offered.
Tusquets, who took over as interim president after the resignation of Josep Maria Bartomeu in October, all but ruled out a…
