In less than three months, Lionel Messi
's contract
with
Paris Saint-Germain
will come to an end.
Without a renewal in sight and rumors that are multiplying about possible clubs that want to stay with the Argentine world champion in Qatar, PSG made an omission in the announcement of the game this Saturday, against Nice for the date 30 of Ligue
1
.
The poster uploaded to the French team's Twitter account has five players and none of them is the best in the world.
On the contrary, those chosen were
Sergio Ramos
,
Gianluigi Donnarumma
,
Kylian Mbappé
,
Marquinhos
and
Warren Zaïre-Emery
, the new jewel of French football.
Although Messi's is not the only important absence in a team full of stars, it is striking that he does not appear after a week in which there was much talk about possible
negotiations with Barcelona
in an interested Spanish press.
As if that were not enough,
Paris Saint-Germain
seeks to get out of its deep crisis.
After the early elimination -again- from the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich, the French team fell into a hole and
accumulates two consecutive defeats
-against Rennes and Lyon- for the French tournament.
That is the negative streak that he will try to break this Saturday when he visits Nice (from 4:00 p.m., on Star+).
With
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé
from the start, the team led by Christophe Galtier needs a win to extend their advantage over Lens to six points, who won this Friday (2-1 against Racing Strasbourg with a goal from Facundo Medina) and reached 60 points, three less than PSG.
For Messi it will be the opportunity to demonstrate all his football without the discomfort that the Parisian public presented him in the last two games in the Parc des Princes.
There, the "ultras" of PSG sent a whistle down from the stands and onto the playing field,
which echoed in the ears of the world champion from Rosario with the Argentine National Team in Qatar 2022 and owner of The Best FIFA award for the best soccer player on the planet
There are not a few rumors of the Argentine leaving PSG in June,
when his contract with the Parisian club
that has Qatari capital expires.
Messi has the possibility of returning to Barcelona to finish his cycle in European football at the club with which he achieved everything;
although there is also speculation about a possible landing in soccer in Saudi Arabia.
He will have to wait.
For his part,
Mbappé also charged against the club and the scandal broke out
.
The French striker made a post on his social networks harshly criticizing PSG who used -according to the footballer- his image for a season ticket sales campaign without prior notice.
The release of the 24-year-old striker did not go down well with the Board of Directors headed by
Nasser Al-Khelaifi
and the former Qatari tennis player with close ties to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the current emir of Qatar, decided to visit the players in a practice.
Al-Khelaifi was shown on the pitch of the Camp des Loges, PSG's training center.
There, he was seen chatting with Luis Campos, the sports director of the Parisian cast, and also with Christophe Galtier, the team's coach.
In addition, as published by the French outlet Le Parisien, the president of the Parisian entity entered the locker room and gave a talk to the players, in a
"unifying and mobilizing"
tone .
The climate is tense at PSG and this Saturday's game will be key to the future of the institution and the players.
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