2023-06-01 16:30:16
PSG coach Christophe Galtier confirmed on Thursday that Lionel Messi is on the way out, referring to the Argentine star’s “last match” at the Parc des Princes, which will take place on the evening of Saturday June 3. The “Pulga” will have spent two seasons in the Parisian club.
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Towards the end of the Messi era at PSG. The coach of the capital club, Christophe Galtier, hailed “Lionel Messi’s last match at the Parc des Princes”, which will take place on Saturday June 3 at 9 p.m. against Clermont for the final day of Ligue 1. He thus confirms that the Argentine star was about to leave.
The day after tomorrow, “it’s his last match at the Parc des Princes. I dare to hope that he will be welcomed in the best possible way”, said the technician about the “Pulga”, which has already suffered several times the whistles of some of the supporters.
The Parisian club, however, clarified to AFP that Christophe Galtier “had expressed himself badly and that the match against Clermont would be Messi’s last at the Parc with PSG this season”.
At the end of the contract on June 30 with PSG, the Argentine world champion should not however extend his lease with the capital club after two seasons. An internal source told AFP in early May that “if the club had wanted to renew his contract, it would have been done earlier”.
For his future destination, Messi is torn between FC Barcelona, Saudi Arabia and Inter Miami. A source in Saudi Arabia close to the negotiations told AFP in early May that the kingdom had offered an “exceptional”, “enormous” gold bridge to Messi and that his recruitment by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund (PIF) and for an as yet undetermined club was “a done deal”.
The striker’s father, Jorge Messi, however, denied in the process, indicating on Instagram that there was “nothing verbal, nothing signed, no agreement” and that there would be none. not “until the season is over”, castigating “people who consciously and deliberately lie, without providing any evidence for their assertions”.
A “privilege” for Christophe Galtier
About his record in two seasons at PSG, “a lot has been said about Leo, you have analyzed a lot,” Christophe Galtier told journalists at a press conference. He found the criticisms of the Parisian No. 30 “not at all, but not at all justified”.
According to the calculations of Christophe Galtier, Lionel Messi, at “35 years old with a season with a World Cup in the middle”, has statistics of “21 goals and 22 assists. This means that he has been decisive 43 times. He has always been at the service of the game team, of the animation”.
Arrived in the summer of 2022, Christophe Galtier considers it a “privilege” to have been able to “manage the best player in the history of football”.
“I won’t tell you about his first season, he had to adapt, it was the first time he left Barcelona. But this year he was an important element, always available, always present in training sessions”, concluded the coach.
With AFP
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