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Lionel Messi has agreed to stay at FC Barcelona until 2021 in a deal that all but commits the star striker to ending his top-flight career with the Spanish giants.
The megastar who joined Barcelona as a teenager 17 years ago will remain at the club until he is 34 under the new deal, the Catalan club announced Wednesday, ending months of speculation about the future of the five-time Ballon d’Or winner.
“The deal will be signed in the coming weeks, when Messi returns to the team for pre-season training,” the club said in a statement, as the 30-year-old enjoyed his honeymoon just days after he wed his childhood sweetheart in Argentina.
Messi has hinted in the past that he would like to return in the future to Argentina to play for his very first club, CA Newell’s Old Boys in his hometown of Rosario, where he wed last week. But he has also said that his priority is to win more honors with Barca, the club he has called his home since he was 13.
Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu has made keeping Messi at Barca a personal crusade.
“We wanted to ensure that the best player in the history of football remains at the club,” he said. “He plays here and he should retire here.”
No financial details of Messi’s new contact were disclosed, but Spain’s Marca sports daily reported on Tuesday that the deal included a €300 million ($340 million) termination clause.
Under his current contract, due to run out in June 2018, Messi earns around €20 million a year in salary, according to Spanish media — and this did not include millions of euros in revenues earned from ads and performance-linked bonuses.
Messi joined FC Barcelona in 2000 when he was just 13 years old in the youth training center.
“He made his first team debut at just 16 years of age in a friendly against FC Porto, before making his debut the following season against Espanyol at 17,” the club said in a statement.
“Shortly after, he scored his first senior goal with a clever lob against Albacete at the Camp Nou.”
The deal announcement is likely to reassure fans and members of FC Barcelona, which has had a disappointing season by the club’s own high standards.
The club was eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinals by Juventus, and came second behind arch-rivals Real Madrid in La Liga, though Barca did win the Copa del Rey.
Messi’s contract extension consolidates the much-feared “MSN” striking trio which also includes Brazil’s Neymar and Uruguay’s Luis Suarez.
Both have also renewed their contracts until 2021.
With 507 goals scored in 583 official matches, Messi is the club’s all-time leading scorer and the top scorer in La Ligua historyand. He is widely considered the world’s best player along with Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, his Real Madrid rival.
“He’s the best player I’ve ever seen on the pitch,” said Ernesto Valverde, Barcelona’s new coach, of Messi.
Now 30, Messi could have been tempted by other horizons — having been courted by clubs like PSG and Manchester City — particularly as he was found guilty last year of tax fraud in Spain.
But he has lived in Catalonia since his early teens, and currently resides in Barcelona with his now-wife Antonella Roccuzzo, their son Thiago, four, and Mateo, one— both of whom were born in Spain.
And Messi himself said in May that his aim as a footballer was to “try and win the most titles possible” with FC Barcelona.

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