Joan Laporta, Barcelona president, still dreams of Lionel Messi’s return to Catalonia. The daily Mundo Deportivo this Saturday reports that the club has a plan in place for a rapprochement with the Argentine.
The same source states that the operation will obviously be complicated by monetary issues, more or less the same that made it impossible to renew a season ago and “pushed” him to leave, ending up at Paris Saint-Germain, due to lack of wage margin. On the other hand, there may be just a tribute game, which he never had, or the appointment to an ambassador.
The hiring is, without a doubt, the one that requires the most financial gymnastics and would involve accepting a relatively low salary, but which would have a return in terms of merchandising and marketing. Then, knowing how to insert him in a squad that Xavi Herndández has under construction – the fact that they are friends can have a certain weight – and having to accept a secondary role depending on the choices of the manager.
For his part, at 35, Messi is making an excellent start to the season in France, after a weaker transition season, and fully focused on doing well in the Qatar World Cup, with PSG also intending to renew his contract. Argentina next summer.
Mundo Deportivo insists that getting closer to Messi is a personal project of the president, to try to remedy what happened last summer: he had to inform the biggest star in Barça’s history that, after promising him the renewal of his contract, he did not he had managed to do so due to the exceeding of the maximum salary ceiling.
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