Barca sells Leo Messi, Arsenal shocks MU?

According to Catalan sports channel Esport3, Barcelona is planning to sell the greatest striker in the history of the Catalan team, Lionel Messi. However, the price of the Argentine striker is not cheap at all - 250 million euros to break the contract.

Will Messi leave Barcelona? (Source: AP)

The main reason that could lead to this separation is that Lionel Messi and the Catalan team's leadership could not reach an agreement on a contract extension.

Specifically, Messi wants a world record salary of up to 20.5 million pounds a year and owns all of his image rights. However, Barca does not accept this.

* Real Madrid has just received good news when both pillars Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo have returned to training and are likely to play in the match against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals.

Ronaldo and Marcelo will have final tests in the coming days, before the coaching staff makes a final decision.

Earlier, on the day Real won the King's Cup, Ronaldo also appeared in the press and confirmed that he no longer felt pain. This striker is very confident that he will return to fight with his teammates in the Champions League.

* When asked about the match between Bayern and Real, coach Pep Guardiola said that this is not an easy match but before thinking about that, he needs to play well against Braunschweig.

"To play well in Madrid, Bayern need to play well against Braunschweig. We need to focus both in attack and defence to have a good feeling when going to Madrid. Madrid are always difficult opponents, they just won the King's Cup and are very confident," said Pep.

Pep also shared about the current personnel situation: "I only have 14 players available. At this point, I can't rotate anymore."

According to information from the Italian press, Tottenham's sporting director Franco Baldini has unexpectedly contacted former AC Milan coach Max Allegri.

This move shows that the White Hart Lane team seems to have put their trust in this coach, in replacing Tim Sherwood to lead Tottenham.

Currently, after being fired by Milan's board of directors, the coach has not received any offers from any team.

Arsenal target Chris Smalling. (Source: Getty Images)

* Manager Arsene Wenger is planning a shock move in the summer transfer market, putting Manchester United's Chris Smalling on his shopping list.

According to British media, the Gunners are ready to spend around £12 million to have the English centre-back.

Smalling is considered a versatile player who can play both as a centre-back and a right-back. Therefore, Arsenal is targeting Smalling because they are not sure if they can keep right-back Bacary Sagna.

* Atletico are taking steady steps towards the Liga championship this season after a 2-0 victory over the "underdog" team Elche, in the early match of round 34.
This victory helps Atletico temporarily increase the gap with the second team, Real Madrid, to 6 points while there are only 4 more rounds left in the season.

According to VNA