Lionel Messi has confirmed that he offered to halve his wages in order to stay at Barcelona while branding reports that he asked for a 30 per cent wage increase as "a lie". Messi addressed the media at Camp Nou for the final time on Sunday, having been forced to cut short his 216-year career at Barca due to a breakdown in negotiations over a new long-term contract. The Catalan giants have been frantically trying to reduce their wage bill since the end of the 2020-21 campaign to get back below...