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This time that’s it, the pawns are well spread out on the chessboard. All the suitors for Lionel Messi were able to prepare their arguments, both verbal and financial, and polish their weapons before offering him a concrete project. At the end of the contract on the side of PSG where the transplant never really took, the sevenfold Ballon d’Or should not extend the adventure in France. On the other hand, he is spoiled for choice for his future as a few clubs are ready to make him an offer.
Saudi Arabia would like to revive the duel with Cristiano Ronaldo and sign him to Al-Hilal. The leaders would offer him the biggest salary ever for a football player. The figure of €300m per season has been put forward. David Beckham’s Inter Miami is not to be outdone and is trying to sell him the living environment, the constantly improving level of MLS, in addition to a salary that is also very comfortable. And then, of course, there is FC Barcelona, his (almost) always club.
A two-year contract and a much reduced salary compared to 2021
Joan Laporta dreams of bringing the Blaugrana kid back to Catalonia. Negotiations have even started between the Culés and the Argentinian clan, which the leaders did not hide, as if to give credibility to their project. Should we still be able to finance it when Barça has been facing very great economic difficulties for more than two years now. This is also why Leo Messi was unable to extend to the summer of 2021. The club has apparently made its small calculations and must find around 25 M€, the cost that Messi would represent per year.
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According to information from Sport, Barça will offer a 2-year contract, with the possibility for the 36-year-old striker to end this agreement at the end of the 2023/2024 season. He would offer him a salary of € 13 million net per month, which would make him the best paid player in the squad, more or less at the same level as Robert Lewandowski. As a reminder, in 2017 he signed a contract guaranteeing him €555 million in income until 2021. The best player in Blaugrana history must now accept, La Liga and its financial fair play too.
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