He agreed to originally, but as he went out of contract he technically left them and they couldn't re-register him until they sorted out their wage bill, so they were just waiting on that. Seems like something has changed in the meantime.I know this is the silly old romantic in me, but if Messi really wants to stay at Barca, why doesn’t he just take a slight paycut to make it happen?
His current wage is fucking absurd.
Haven't been able to register any of their other signings yet either, Aguero, Depay and so on.