Robert Fernandez believes Barcelona are on their way to finalizing a contract extension for Lionel Messi.

"It's going well, actually better, it's going very well," Fernandez said. "I am very calm, of this you can be sure. There have been lots of comments, from people who want to mislead, but for some time we have working on it and we are very calm."

Messi's father recently played down talk of his son possibly leaving Barcelona.

Messi's current deal will expire in 2018.