ACCORDING TO 'SPORT'
BOMBSHELL! Xavi requests the signing of Leo Messi for Barça
Published:24/07/2022 - 21:46h
Updated:25/07/2022 - 01:39h
FC Barcelona's long-term plans could take an unexpected turn after a supposed request from Xavi Hernández to Joan Laporta's board of directors, who wants Leo Messi back
Lionel Messi abandoned the FC Barcelona does almost a year with destination to the Paris Saint-Germain, because the Barcelona club did not have how renew his agreement. The relation between the barcelonistas and the footballer remained entirely broken and, since, have not had approaches. Nevertheless, an unexpected change of script could change completely the history.
According to a recent information of the newspaper 'SPORT', Xavi Hernández would have asked to the managerial board of Joan Laporta that Lionel Messi return in the summer of 2023 for a 'last dance'. The trainer egarense keeps a big relation with the footballer of 34 years and would have posed the possibility of his contracting again.
The same information aims that Xavi thinks that the return of 'The Flea' can be key to help to the club in the economic appearance (by all what generates to level of advertising and sponsorships), but also to sportive level, place considers that it is a player that still can offer a lot on the terrain of game. It wants that Messi, in this sense, finish his career where began it: in the Spotify Camp Nou.
In case that like this suceda, would suppose a true surprise. Messi would arrive with 36 years, in the final stretch of his career. 'SPORT' Aims that "it believes feasible that the Argentinian go back to the team to add and lead the project inside his reality futbolística". In any case, the 'albiceleste' is focused only in the World-wide of Qatar of this winter and has agreement with the Paris Saint-Germain until the 2023.
The statements of Laporta of Messi
Before the Classical of the FC Barcelona against the Real Madrid, that the blaugrana finish winning by the minimum thanks to a goal of Raphinha, the president Joan Laporta pronounced on the possible return of Leo Messi to the Spotify Camp Nou, standing out that it expects that the chapter of the Argentinian have not finish totally. "I create, I expect and wish that the chapter Leo Messi have not finished in the Barça", said.
Likewise, it thinks that it is responsibility of the Barcelona club close this chapter as it is had to, as it deserves after being the most important player of the history of the Barça: "I Think that it is our responsibility the achieve that this chapter, that still is open and that has not closed , have a moment in which it can do as it had to have done and that have an end much more esplendoroso of what went".