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Lionel Messi's new contract offer from Barcelona includes a release clause of €300million.

Messi is weighing up a deal to keep him to 2021, but is said to be considering his future after the Catalan giants suffered a difficult transfer window.

He has reportedly grown frustrated after pal Neymar was sold to PSG and Barca failed to land Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho.

The fee, at just over £276million at today's exchange rate, is huge for a 30-year-old, but perhaps not so outlandish given the summer fees for Kylian Mbappe and Neymar.

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Manchester City have been frequently linked with Messi given his relationship with ex-Barca boss Pep Guardiola, now at the Etihad.

However, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu believes the release clause is irrelevant anyway.

He told Sport.es: "Barça will never make a player stay if he tells us that he wants to go, as it happens in other clubs in Europe.

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”We have a way of being different from other clubs, we think the players are happy here to play and to perform.

"It is the same if the clause is 500, 600, 1,000 or 1,500, we can put the clause we want because if a player wants to leave, we will have to sit down and talk to him to see how we do.

"It is what we miss with Neymar, if he had done so, would have been better for everyone."