Lionel Messi has confirmed that he will stay at Barcelona despite recent misunderstandings.

Goal.com revealed through a conversation with the 33-year old that it wasn’t part of his plans to take Barca to court regardless of the Blaugranas decision to keep him when his heart was out of the club.

According to Messi, Barcelona has given him everything to be who he is therefore it will be decent if he finishes his one year contract and leave peacefully.

"I thought and was sure that I was free to leave, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I stayed or not," Messi told Goal.

"Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before June 10, when it turns out that on June 10 we were competing for La Liga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered all the season.

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"And this is the reason why I am going to continue in the club. Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the €700m (£624m) clause and that this is impossible."

"There was another way and it was to go to trial," he added. "I would never go to court against Barca because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived.

"It is the club of my life, I have made my life here.

"Barca gave me everything and I gave it everything. I know that it never crossed my mind to take Barca to court."

The player's decision means Manchester City would have to wait till next season if they still demand the services of the Argentine who would be 34 years then.