hello and welcome to sportsday — my mother vividly remembers going on hospital visits with him. i'm gavin ramjaun. every saturday morning, we went he could never take to mansfield general hospital the club he loves to court. to do a ward round. lionel confirms he's and he would put on his white staying at barcelona. coat and would sweep in. international football resumes for the home nations, and he was made such a fuss of. with northern ireland and scotland first up. and then we went all and british hopes rest round all the patients, with cameron norries chatting to each one. and dan evans at the us open. following the defeats after the war, ernest nicoll carried on his work with miners. for andy murray and jo konta. he spent the rest of his life working as an orthopaedic surgeon in the nhs. and playing the piano. a showman to the very end. hello and welcome to sophie ray were fanned of the story sportsday, i'm gavin ramjaun let's head to the big news of her grandfather in the war. from the world of football. and it was the transfer that had everyone excited. time for a look at the weather. lionel messi, the world's best player, in a potential today has been pretty cloudy across move from barcelona — to rejoin his former much of the country, the brightest boss pep guardiola quys much of the country, the brightest guysin much of the country, the brightest guys in northern scotland but it is here where we have plenty of showers at manchester city.

working on, you see that shower today, messi confirmed clouds across the northern half of that it's not to be. the country and thicker cloud and that he's staying at the spanish side for another bringing rain at the moment into the after struggling to come to an agreement over south—west but are lurking out into the end of his contract. the atlantic is where we need to it's a move that's disappointed look for this weekend's weather, the many, including messi himself judging from a interview released stripe of cloud is going to be not long ago. our sports correspondent racing across the seas to our shores andy swissjoins me now. just in time for the weekend, messi just couldn't bring himself threatening sunlight and patchy rain, particularly towards to take barcelona to court. north—western areas. overnight, a little rain for a time across south—east england and east anglia, he doesn't want a legal battle with that clears away, it won't last very his own cloud. it was ten days ago long, the sky is clear and we see further showers packing in behind if he announced that he wanted to gci’oss further showers packing in behind across northern and western scotland. a few for northern ireland leave barcelona. he said there was a and the north—west of england and clause in this contract and said he could leave for free, however the wales, temperatures overnight 8—12. cloud said that because it had been as i've hinted at, this weekend is looking pretty cloudy for many of us prolonged by coronavirus, that and there will be some rain around, most of it light and patchy and not expired back in june prolonged by coronavirus, that expired back injune and the only way you'll be able to leave is of a amounting to two much and it will buying cloud bait is released fee tend to be biased towards north—western areas. for many, quite which was 700 million euros which is a cloudy day but showers from the £620 million. and if that didn't word go for northern scotland, some of these quite blustery. this zone come in for training at start of the of these quite blustery. this zone of thicker cloud will slide into week, his father and also his agent

also flew northern ireland and north—west england and wales, where the weather will turn quite damp for a time. no over had talks of the hierarchy and we found out that he is now going to great rainfall amounts building up but just damp weather. stay simply because he cannot face a great rainfall amounts building up butjust damp weather. across southern england, southern wales, eastern england and eastern legal battle. he has given an scotland, some areas stay entirely interview where he said i thought it dry with occasional bright spells was sure that i was free to leave poking through. the second half of the weekend again looks pretty and the president always said that i cloudy and there will be further could decide if i stayed or not and patches of rain developing across i'm going to continue in the club parts of england and wales and a because the president told me that little bit further eastwards as the only way to leave us to pay the well. meanwhile, in scotland, with 700 million clause and that is this kind of wind flow, it should be impossible. i would 700 million clause and that is impossible. iwould never go 700 million clause and that is impossible. i would never go to court against barcelona because it a drier kind of day, a few showers for the north—east of scotland but is the club that i love and give me the central belt probably dry and bright with spells of sunshine. all everything since i arrived. although in all, this weekend is looking he is staying company does not sound quite cloudy. that is it, goodbye thrilled to be staying. as of the writing people that he is immensely from me and on bbc one, time for the 00:02:45,750 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 news where you are. have a very good frustrated with the club and their lack of progress that the solid, no silverware last season and is frustrated with the leadership and there is an defeat in the champions league in munich. and although he has talked about his attitude not going to change, you'll still give

100% next season and the only reason he wanted to stay was to avoid a legal battle, he doesn't want to reluctance. it seems there was bit ofa reluctance. it seems there was bit of a power struggle between him and the club, yes. at all. to this contract in this clause and have that clause expire as barcelona and 700 million euros of that to be paid which is a huge sum of money and also the spanish league, they came down in favour of barcelona and it's their most prestigious asset and he decided that he could not fix this legal battle. thank you very much indeed for that. let us stay with football and the start of a busy autumn for both. patrick reports. all year, or they

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