PSG confirms that Messi, who does not yet know where he will play, is leaving Paris

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2023-06-03 20:28:19

BarcelonaMessi’s French exile is over. PSG has made it official that Lionel Messi is leaving the French League, after two seasons where he won this competition, but failed to shine in the Champions League. On the verge of turning 35, the Argentine still does not know where he will play next season. On the table he has a very juicy offer on the economic scale of Saudi football, but Barça and Inter Miami still dream of being able to change destiny. The announcement was made before PSG’s last game of the season, a game where Messi was booed by radical local fans.

Messi has had a strange season, as he has touched the sky with the Argentine national team by proclaiming himself world champion, but at PSG nothing has gone quite right, despite winning the League. The players have been booed by the fans and he has had moments of tension with the board, particularly after he left to shoot an advert in Saudi Arabia without the club’s permission. It should be remembered that PSG is owned by the emirate of Qatar. And Qatar maintains a great geopolitical rivalry with the Saudis, which is why Messi was banned for two weeks without being able to pay and play.

According to some sources, Messi has already decided to leave to play in Saudi Arabia this summer, following in the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo, current star of Al-Nassr. The Argentine, in this case, would go to the rival team, Al-Hilal. Barça, however, is trying to find a way to be able to offer Messi a contact to return to Barcelona, ​​although the financial situation of the Catalan club is not helping, which is why they have come to consider a joint operation with Inter from Miami, where the Americans would sign him, transferring him to Barça for one year.

The news had already been advanced by the PSG coach, Christophe Galtier, in a press conference on Thursday, but hours later the same club clarified that the coach had “expressed himself badly”. Today, it was confirmed that Galtier, who will also not remain at the club, was not lying. “Paris Saint-Germain is proud to have in its ranks the best player in history, and wishes him every success for the rest of his career,” the club’s statement read. For his part, the president of PSG, Nasser al-Khelaïfi, has emphasized that it has been a “pleasure” to see the seven-time winner of the Ballon d’Or wear red and blue at the Parc des Princes, to win twice in a row French League and inspire the younger ones.

Messi, who has worn the number 30 in Paris, has scored a total of 32 goals and made 35 assists. He arrived in Paris in August 2021 on a two-season contract with an option for a third, from his club all his life, Barça, from where he left crying, as he wanted to stay. After the World Cup in Qatar, it seemed that the player and the club would activate this additional year, but in recent weeks the positions have become more distant.

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