Au revoire
.
Lionel Messi
will step down as a
Paris Saint-Germain
player once he finishes the season and fulfills his two-year contract with the club from the French capital.
The controversial sanction on the Argentine soccer player, not yet officially announced by
PSG
, accelerated the times and it was leaked that the player had already decided not to renew before this controversy arose around
his trip to Saudi Arabia
.
And now?
It is logical that in Argentina there is expectation around the
future of Messi
.
The captain of the American and world champion team is closing a glorious career but which may be missing a couple of chapters with the albiceleste shirt, first in the 2024 Copa América and then in the 2026 World Cup, when Leo turns 39 age.
Hence, the PSG chapter is closed, it will remain to be known what Messi's destiny will be for the coming seasons,
with three known options and one that gets into the fight
to afford the best of all time to put on his shirt.
A privilege that PSG clearly did not know or failed to enjoy.
In Barcelona they received the news with a smile: it is the signal they were waiting for to put themselves first in the negotiations, both with Leo and with LaLiga, trying to unlock all the financial complications that are holding back their arrival.
The interest exists from both parties but it will be necessary to sit down to make numbers and review the regulations.
Lionel Messi and PSG's 30, a shirt that has become famous worldwide in the last two years.
Photo: REUTERS/Christian Hartmann.
The MLS thing is also known, with David Beckham trying to take him to Inter Miami to fulfill his dream, that of his son (a fan of Leo) and of the entire United States, which in the coming years will be the epicenter of soccer worldwide. .
The downside of the USA project is the low demand of the tournament, a factor that Leo would not be willing to resign in search of staying in the highest competition, which would be playing the Champions League in Europe.
The same goes for Saudi Arabia and that historic offer that Al Hilal is preparing to tempt Lionel.
The controversial trip that this episode unleashed with PSG reveals the commercial ties that unite the footballer with the Middle Eastern country, so it will be Messi who decides if he accepts this proposal and joins the league where Cristiano Ronaldo already plays.
Lionel Messi and David Beckham, together in a PSG practice, days before the controversial trip to Saudi Arabia.
Photo: PSG Inside.
But be careful, because this bomb that exploded in Paris enables more participants to join the struggle to take Messi away.
Interest from Italian football is added to all the aforementioned candidates, with at least one of the big Calcio teams asking conditions to make an attempt to add the Argentine for the 2022/2023 season.
It is enough to check life without Messi in these two years in Barcelona (not only the club, but also the city) or review the commercial boom that his arrival at PSG meant in mid-2021 to understand the implications of having Leo in a team.
Scaloni's Argentine team has it very clear.
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Messi did not show up to train with PSG, which has not yet made the Argentine sanction official
