Watching the whole interview, I don’t see how that’s him putting pressure on the board to allow him to go or inviting city to make a bid or anything of that nature that gives hope this can still happen this summer. His tone seemed very definitive to me it was one of an acceptance he will have to stay for another year. He and his dad/lawyers etc will have made sure his words were very deliberate, there were different ways of saying things if he still thought he could get out this month.
If we were able to stick a contract in front of him now for 12 months time I suspect he would sign it but January is a long time away in football terms Bartomeu will surely be out of the club before then, maybe he gets along with the new guy, maybe he likes Koeman and his ideas and sees some sparks of life in a fastly declining side. It’s going to be a very annoying wait to see how this plays out, still a very real chance we will get to see Messi in a City shirt, just a little longer than we had hoped.
