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Messi, bad blood and a burofax: What you need to know about the G.O.A.T.'s breakup with Barcelona

The letter (well, "burofax") arrives, recorded delivery. That way, no one can pretend that they didn't get it. Someone opens it -- Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, himself? -- and reads it. What does it say? Wait, what? It says that Lionel Messi, the greatest player in the club's history, in any club's history, wants to leave. Now. And for free. And he thinks that legally -- there's a reason he's used a "burofax," after all -- Barcelona have to let him.

And, well, everyone, everywhere goes absolutely wild.