SPAIN: Messi is yet to sign a new deal with his boyhood club and has scored 27 times for Barcelona this season, but his future hangs in the balance amid strong links to teams abroad. His staff has told sources that the Barcelona star has not given an interview with a British publication in which he said he would continue at the Nou Camp for “as long as the club want him to be there”. Earlier on Wednesday a supposed interview with Messi in Coach Magazine emerged in which the Barcelona star discussed different topics like his future at Barcelona, a potential move to the Premier League and his relationship with Real Madrid counterpart Cristiano Ronaldo. Meanwhile, a Spanish publication claims that his father Jorge Messi has also called the interview misleading and fraudulent. Diego Jokas, the journalist who allegedly interviewed the Argentinian star, has taken to Twitter to clarify that neither did he conduct an interview nor has he ever worked for Coach magazine. This embarrassing episode has forced Coach magazine into deleting the article from its website.