Qatar saved Lionel Messi from FC Barcelona when no one offered him such a contract in 2021. The seven-time Ballon d’Or has never taken PSG to the highest level, except for his personal interests with the Argentina.
Lionel Messi admitted it himself this Wednesday evening, explaining that he had made the choice to join Inter Miami in MLS for next season, the attitude of FC Barcelona was not very reassuring in his eyes. The Argentinian has never forgotten how he was fired in the summer of 2021, told to find himself a new club when he thought until the day before he returned from vacation that he was going to be extended. without too much trouble. A slap that was not erased by the fine words of Joan Laporta, in whom he had no confidence at all to prolong the discussions in order to guarantee him a concrete contract and therefore a return to Catalonia.
Messi only thought of the World Cup, not of PSG
His arrival at PSG was clearly not calculated, and as he came out of a less convincing season, La Pulga did not make many people dream. QSI went all out and was able to afford it for two seasons. The premiere was clearly a failure, due to a difficult adaptation and a shaky form. The second had started on a hallucinatory basis, allowing us to dream again of big goals in Europe. But the Argentinian was mainly focused on his form for the World Cup, which he managed to do. Then, the world champion disappeared from the radar, without being injured.
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For Jonathan Johnson, journalist for several media, including CBS, who is delighted to see the seven-time Ballon d’Or join the American championship, things must be said and Lionel Messi has used PSG well for his own interests. Without really worrying about the second half of the season. “ His greatest success during these two years in Paris, he will have obtained it very far from the Parisians. We will say that this may have allowed the Qatari owners to see their World Cup shine even more. Messi finally had his international success that his legend was asking for. But meanwhile PSG are picking up the damage as Neymar and Messi’s season ended when they returned from Qatar, something Galtier’s men never recovered from “, Delivered the journalist, for whom the PSG absolutely never regained its pre-World Cup during the second part of the season.
A theory strongly defended by Christophe Galtier, for whom it is not him who must be called into question, but the fact that this event wanted by Qatar and obliged to be organized in the middle of winter for climatic reasons, finally sealed the season of the Parisian club which he owns the Emirate.
