Joan Laporta believes that Lionel Messi will at all times maintain Barcelona in his coronary heart, and admits that he would ‘love’ the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner to return to the Nou Camp.
The Barca president performed down the probabilities of Messi rejoining the Catalan giants, claiming that he ‘has a contract with’ PSG, however readily admitted that he would really like the membership’s report goalscorer to ‘come again sooner or later’.
Messi gave verbal consent to a contract extension at PSG after his World Cup heroics – which resulted in Argentina plotting to print his face on a 1,000 peso financial institution be aware – though the membership seem set to show down his reported need to parade the World Cup trophy round their stadium.
Joan Laporta admitted he would ‘very a lot love’ for Lionel Messi to return to Barcelona
‘With reference to Messi, we will’t generate expectations,’ Laporta advised Barca TV. ‘Messi is a PSG participant and has a contract with them.
‘He has gained the World Cup and the Culés have been very completely satisfied. What I don’t need to do is generate expectations that in the meanwhile are very tough.
‘For us he’s the perfect participant of all time, we’ve got had him right here and I’m satisfied that in his coronary heart he’s a Culé and can at all times be linked to Barca.
Messi left the Blaugrana 16 months in the past after becoming a member of as a youth 21 years in the past from Newell’s Previous Boys
‘Whether or not or not he comes again as a participant, in the meanwhile he’s at PSG and we’d very a lot love him to come back again sooner or later, however we’ll see.’
It has solely been 16 months because the Argentina skipper left Barca, however the hypothesis regarding a possible return to the Nou Camp has by no means actually abated.
Nonetheless the monetary mismanagement on the Blaugrana has left them in a really weak place relating to probably luring Messi again to the membership the place he made his identify as the perfect participant on the planet.
The 35-year-old World Cup winner has given PSG a verbal settlement that he’ll signal an prolonged contract
Laporta was additionally fast to debate what was but to come back for a few of his personal gamers, with Sergio Busquets’ future as but undecided.
‘We would like him to proceed. When his contract is up his contract will likely be up. I don’t know if he’ll go away this winter or if he’ll keep till the tip of the season, we would like him to remain till the tip of the season as a result of that’s what Xavi has requested us to do.
‘I hope he continues till the tip, however no matter he decides will likely be properly determined. All of us need him to proceed. The way in which we see that he’s performing, all of us need him to proceed.’
Barca boss Xavi (R) needs Sergio Busquets to remain on the membership till no less than the tip of the season
