Following the fallout of Lionel Messi and Spanish La Liga giant Barcelona, French Ligue 1 top side Paris St-Germain is in talks with Argentina forward for a possible move to the Ligue side. Everyeeryng gathered that Paris Saint-Germain contacted Messi immediately after the news was broadcasted.
Further talks are taking place on Saturday amid increasing confidence a deal can be put together. Barcelona says Messi will give a news conference on Sunday at 11:00 BST. The Catalan club declared Messi, a free agent, would not stay at the club on Thursday.
They blamed “financial and structural obstacles” for the player leaving after 21 years. On Friday, Barca president Joan Laporta said keeping Messi could have put the club at risk for 50 years. The 34-year-old has been a free agent since 1 July when his contract expired.
He, however, agreed on a new five-year contract on reduced wages with Barca after the victory at the Copa America, but the club still had to slash their wage bill to afford him and was unable to do so. The Argentina captain is Barcelona’s record scorer with 672 goals and has won 10 La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues and seven Copa del Reys, as well as claiming the Ballon d’Or on a record six occasions.
Lionel Messi is more comfortable with the PSG, and he is happy to link up with Neymar, who played with him at Barcelona from 2013-2017 before his world record £200m move to PSG. The deal would be possible under Financial Fair Play because PSG’s recruitment this summer has centred largely around out-of-contract players in the form of defender Sergio Ramos, midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, while right-back Achraf Hakimi joined from Inter Milan.