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FC Barcelona: Joan Laporta wants to do everything to keep Lionel Messi
Candidate and favorite in the presidential election of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta spoke about the case of Lionel Messi, at the end of his contract at the end of the season and who had already tried to leave Catalonia during the last summer transfer market .
"I will do everything possible to keep Lionel Messi," he explained in an interview with
Sky Sport Italia
.
For the former president of the Blaugrana between 2003 and 2010, Lionel Messi "still wants to win with Barcelona".
In order to convince him to extend, the 58-year-old man considers that it is necessary to succeed in seducing him other than by money: "Messi must be valued with the affection he deserves and with an economic proposal to match. but he doesn't do it for the money.
I know him well, I have a good personal relationship with him.
He is not someone who is here for the money.
He will surely need a competitive sporting offer because he is a winner, he wants to win again with Barcelona ”, he said.
Lionel Messi, 33, is among others announced at Paris Saint-Germain, against whom he has just suffered a heavy defeat (1-4) in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
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