While Lionel Messi would have given his agreement to PSG to extend until 2024, FC Barcelona, for its part, does not give any false hope to the supporters as to a possible return of the « Pulga ».
Lionel Messiliving legend you FC Barcelona, left in tears in the summer of 2021, should not return to the Blaugranas next year. In the middle of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, he ended up kissing the absolute Grail with his Albiceleste (by winning the competition last Sunday against France), the 35-year-old seven-time Ballon d’Or would have agreed to extend to PSG until June 2024.
« La Pulga » would therefore not be free of any contract at the end of the season and Barça will not be able to take the opportunity to reunite the Argentinian number 10 with his friend Xavi, now in charge of the Catalan team. And president Joan Laporta made it very clear about Messi’s possible return to FCB, in a lengthy interview with the club’s official media.
» Of course, I would like him to come back one day. I would love to, but we can’t general such expectations. He is a player of PSG, who has a contract with them. What I don’t want is to create expectations that would do a lot of harm. The levers were made to save the club because they were in a very difficult situation. Now the league has set limits. It would be possible to carry out other operations, but not to sign a player “, explained Laporta.
That way, it’s clear: FC Barcelona is no longer able to generate significant new revenue, by claiming parts of some of its entities, as was the case last summer in order to carry out an XXL recruitment. Especially since Messi receives 30 million euros net per season at PSG and that, even if he made sacrifices to return to Barça, the mission would be financially impossible speaking. At least the Barcelona supporters are fixed.