For Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, PSG is not for nothing in the non-return of Lionel Messi to the Blaugrana.
Lionel Messi started his new life in Florida. The seven-time Ballon d’Or indeed arrived this Tuesday in Fort-Lauderdale and must initial his two and a half season contract with Inter Miami in the coming hours before being presented this Sunday to the Florida public on the occasion of the Gold Cup final.
At the end of the contract at PSG and pushed out by the Parisian leaders, Lionel Messi has long hoped to be able to return to Barça. But the Argentine world champion finally resolved to go into exile across the Atlantic and for Joan Laporta, the president of the Espage champions, PSG had a lot to do with the choice of the native of Rosario to set sail for Florida. .
“The player wanted, his father too. We didn’t want what happened the other time to happen to us and we told them that we would be limited by financial fair play. Then, after a while, the whole contract was closed, he first told in the columns of the Mundo Deportivobefore insisting on the difficult times experienced by Lionel Messi in Paris: “Jorge wanted to come and talk to me and told us that he chose Inter Miami because he had spent very tough seasons in Paris, where he was under pressure. In Miami he will be calmer and he will be able to think about the national team. Even if he wanted to return to Barça. He didn’t want to spend another year like the previous ones. It’s understandable and we started working on a great tribute that Barça must do for Lionel Messi. »
