BARCELONA, SPAIN - AUGUST 08: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternate crop) Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona faces the media throughout a press convention at Nou Cam
BARCELONA, SPAIN – AUGUST 08: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Alternate crop) Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona faces the media throughout a press convention at Nou Camp on August 08, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Lionel Messi has obtained a proper two-year contract provide from Paris Saint-Germain.
The French membership have supplied Messi an preliminary two-year deal, regarded as value £25m a 12 months after tax, and the six-time Ballon d’Or winner and his representatives are actually reviewing and contemplating it rigorously.
Messi additionally has two different potential choices after leaving Barcelona however PSG stay the favourites to signal him.
Barcelona introduced Messi wouldn’t proceed on the membership after they had been unable to fulfil a brand new contract that had been agreed with the participant as a result of “monetary and structural obstacles”.
The Argentina worldwide has spoken immediately with PSG head coach Mauricio Pochettino this week about shifting to the French capital.
Requested if PSG might be his subsequent transfer at his farewell information convention on Sunday, Messi mentioned: “That’s one chance, to succeed in these heights.
“I’ve received nothing confirmed with anyone. I had plenty of calls, plenty of golf equipment. For the time being, nothing is closed, however we’re speaking about plenty of issues.”
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PSG shortly emerged because the front-runners for his signature, in a transfer that might reunite him with former Barcelona team-mate Neymar.
Messi mentioned he didn’t wish to depart Barcelona in an emotional farewell information convention on Sunday.
Messi was in tears as he obtained a standing ovation in his remaining Barcelona press convention to announce the top of his 21 years with the membership.
Barcelona confirmed Messi’s departure on Thursday night time, the identical day he returned to Catalonia following his post-Copa America vacation.
Messi had travelled to Barcelona anticipating to agree on the small print of the announcement of his new five-year deal, and he confirmed he supplied to scale back his wages by 50 per cent.
“This 12 months, my household and I had been satisfied we had been going to remain at house, that is what all of us needed greater than something,” mentioned Messi.
“We might at all times made this our personal, we had been at house. We thought we might be staying right here in Barcelona. However at the moment, we have now to say goodbye to all of this.”