Barcelona not only does not throw in the towel in the attempt to recover Leo Messi, but the club considers that it has a point in its favor in the outcome of the future of the Argentine star. In the Camp Nou offices they trust that the player, who will be free on July 1 and that, as confirmed yesterday, his current coach, Christophe Galtier, will not continue at PSG, will not decide anything without first listening to the Blaugrana club, the one who saw him grow, succeed and become the best player in the world.
For all this, in Barcelona they hope that in the near future there will be a summit between the Barcelona sports leadership and Messi's closest entourage. In that appointment, they would talk in depth about the offer that Barcelona can offer to hire the striker, who turns 36 this month. If sources close to the player have made something clear, it is that the only formal proposal they have on the table is that of Saudi Arabia.
That expectation should be resolved at the summit for which Barça sighs. Messi's will, especially after winning the World Cup in Qatar, to continue playing competitive football like Europe at least until the Copa América in 2024, if not a little longer, is an important asset for the blaugrana interests, since that in the club they consider that the footballer wants to know in depth the proposition of Barcelona. Without forgetting the comfort that it would be for the family to return to his life in Castelldefels. For all this, the club believes that Messi is waiting for Barça to make a move despite the offensive, the pressures and the dizzying salary that comes from Arabia.
It would not be the first meeting either since Jorge Messi, father and representative of the Argentine, and Joan Laporta met in April in a first contact. The official version is that then the subject of a possible tribute was touched on. But the meeting served as a rapprochement.
Right now, Barcelona can have an idea of how far they can go in their offer. However, to finish rounding off the numbers and the salary, Barça needs LaLiga to approve the feasibility plan that it has presented. In this sense, the Barcelona sports leadership believes that in ten days they can respond from Javier Tebas' entity. It would be then when Barcelona would go for Messi.
What is a fact is that the footballer will not continue in the Parisian ranks. It was an open secret and Galtier made it public yesterday. “I had the privilege of coaching the best player in the history of football. Against Clermont, it will be Leo's last game at the Parc des Princes", announced the PSG coach before the match.
The club hastened to contact the AFP agency to assure them that Galtier had not expressed himself well. PSG qualified that what the French coach wanted to say is that it will be Messi's last game “this season”. But the truth is that it is Leo's last tango in Paris.
It does not matter that PSG used the image of Messi, among other footballers, to present the shirt for the coming season. It didn't matter that the player made a video apologizing after skipping a training session (posted at the last minute) for a trip to Saudi Arabia. There was no reconciliation even though the club forgave him a week of the harsh and unprecedented penalty he received. The paths of both, who converged in August 2021 after Barcelona informed him that he could not renew and register him, separate. Leo signed for two seasons and there will be no extension.
Messi will say goodbye tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. from the Parc des Princes, where part of the Parisian fans have been whistling at him systematically since PSG was eliminated from the Champions League in March at the hands of Bayern. Despite the investment from Qatar, the Parisian project remains uncrowned in Europe. The Argentine, who was never discredited at the Camp Nou, did not understand that he was blamed – he has only lost three games in the highest continental competition. But Neymar has been injured since February 19 and Mbappé is the great idol after rejecting Real Madrid last summer.
The crack has won the two Ligue 1 in which he has participated, in addition to the French Super Cup 22-23. Being a PSG player, he also received the 2021 Ballon d'Or, the eighth of his career. In addition, Leo Messi was finally proclaimed world champion with Argentina at the World Cup in Qatar in December 2022, which later earned him The Best award and the Laureus award.
The Auguste Delaune stadium in Reims saw the Argentine's debut with PSG on August 29, 2021. Saturday's will be Messi's 75th game with the Parisian club. In these two courses he has scored 32 goals. The last one, in Strasbourg, last week (1-1), served to certify the League title.
