Not only does Barcelona not throw in the towel in the attempt to recover Leo Messi, but the club considers that it has an advantage in the outcome of the future of the Argentine star. The Camp Nou offices are confident that the player, who is free on July 1st and who, as confirmed yesterday by his current coach, Christophe Galtier, will not continue at PSG, will not decide anything without first listening to the Blaugrana club, the that saw him grow, succeed and become the best player in the world.
Because of all this, Barcelona hope that in the near future there will be a summit between the Barcelona sports elite and Messi's closest circle. In this appointment, the offer that Barcelona can offer to hire the striker, who turns 36 this month, will be discussed in depth. If something has been made clear by sources close to the player, it is that, at the moment, the only formal proposal they have on the table is that of Saudi Arabia.
This expectation should be resolved at the summit for which Barça sighs. The will of Messi, especially after conquering the World Cup in Qatar, to continue playing in competitive football like European at least until the 2024 Copa America, if not a little longer, is an important card for the interests Blaugrana, since the club consider that the footballer wants to know Barcelona's proposal in depth. Without forgetting how comfortable it would be for the family to return to their lives in Castelldefels. For all this, Messi expects Barça to move despite the offensive, the pressures and the dizzying salary that reaches him from Arabia.
Nor would it be the first meeting, since Jorge Messi, father and representative of the Argentine, and Joan Laporta met face to face in April in a first contact. The official version is that the topic of a possible tribute was then touched upon. 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 the numbers and the salary, Barça needs LaLiga to approve the viability plan it has presented. In this sense, the Barcelona sports leadership believes that in ten days they can have an answer from Javier Tebas' organization. It would be then when Barcelona would go after Messi.
What is a fact is that the footballer will not continue in the Parisian ranks. It was a public domain secret and Galtier made it public yesterday. "I have had the privilege of training the best player in the history of football. Against Clermont-Ferrand will be Leo's last match at the Parc des Princes", announced the PSG coach in the preview of the match.
The club hastened to contact the AFP agency to assure him that Galtier had not expressed himself well. PSG clarified that what the French coach intended to say is that it will be Messi's last match "this season". But the truth is that this is Leo's last tango in Paris.
It's the same as PSG using the image of Messi, among other footballers, to present the shirt for next year. So much so that the player made a video to apologize after skipping a training session (put on at the last minute) for a trip to Saudi Arabia. There was no reconciliation even if the club forgave him a week of the harsh and unprecedented sanction he received. The paths of both, which converged in August 2021 after Barcelona informed him that they could not renew and register him, separated. Leo signed for two seasons and there will be no extension.
Messi will say goodbye tomorrow at 21:00 at the Parc des Princes, where part of the Parisian fans have systematically booed him since PSG was eliminated from the Champions League in March at the hands of Bayern. Despite Qatar's investment, the Parisian project remains uncrowned in Europe. The Argentine, who never experienced this discredit at Camp Nou, did not understand that he was being blamed - he has only lost three games in the top continental competition -. But Neymar has been injured since February 19 and Mbappé is the big idol after rejecting Madrid in the summer.
The Crac have won the two Ligue 1s in which they have participated, as well as the French Super Cup 22-23. As 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 debut of the Argentine with PSG on August 29, 2021. Tomorrow will be Messi's 75th game in the colors of 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.
