Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu resigned Tuesday amid the fallout of his feud with star Lionel Messi, and on his way out revealed the Spanish club wants to join a potential new super league of elite European teams.

After one of the club�s worst seasons in more than a decade, Bartomeu announced that his entire board of directors also resigned, effectively avoiding a motion of censure vote that was scheduled for the coming weeks.
Bartomeu wanted to delay the vote, citing health concerns for the club�s more than 110,000 members amid the coronavirus pandemic, but local officials earlier in the day authorized the vote to take place.

�We have to act responsibly,� Bartomeu said. �For that reason we cannot hold the vote of censure in the current circumstances. It was necessary to do so in conditions that guaranteed everybody�s health. We cannot nor want to put ourselves in a position of having to choose between protecting people�s health and exercising the right to vote. For that reason we have taken the decision to not call the vote and resign forthwith.�

More than 20,000 Barcelona members had signed a petition for Bartomeu and his board to face a motion of censure. The petition was made not long after Messi said he wanted to leave the club, and following the team's embarrassing 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, a result that capped the club's first season without a title since 2007-08