Lionel Messi opens up on Barcelona return plan

The star striker in Miami Lionel Messi revealed a return to Barcelona after the 2022 World Cup “was not possible” despite his best.

Following a failed attempt to impose his way out of Catalonia in the summer of Borovax for the year 2020, Messi left Barcelona tears after one year because the club was unable to fund a new contract for the largest player ever.

The aging playmaker was cut by Paris Saint -Germain. After bearing the first difficult appearance season of adaptation, Messi re -discovered his best forms at the beginning of the 2022/23 campaign before he led Argentina to the first World Cup in the country in 36 years.

Messi was out of the contract again in that summer, which prompted a global stampede to sign it. The Saudi Professional League clubs were desperate to the Argentine pair with his long -term rival Cristiano Ronaldo, while Inter Miami recruited main football assistance in the league and Apple to finance a global symbol.

However, if Messi was on his way, he would have returned to the Nou camp. “After the World Cup, I could not see myself playing with any European team other than Barcelona,” said 37 years old. Simplement Futbol this week. “My goal was to return. To return to my house, where everything started. But unfortunately, it wasn’t possible.”

Messi later revealed, he was reluctant to accept the consequences that the financial demands of the potential country will cause. “I heard that they have to sell players or reduce the salaries of the players, and the fact is that I do not want to go beyond that or take responsibility for something related to all of this,” he said.

Messi is almost in a state of batch, but he insisted that the money was not the catalyst for moving to Miami. “The decision to come here was a purely family decision,” said the second highest football player in the world. “We came to the United States, to Miami, to live this new experience.”

Inter Miami are sure of the expansion of this profitable nodes and messi does not think about retirement yet. “I have no doubt that I will continue to compete,” he said. “This nature will never leave me, because it is part of me. This is how I grew up. I love winning and competition.”

However, the global phenomenon has been shy for his participation in the 2026 World Cup. “This year will be important to my decision regarding the World Cup,” Messi admitted. “I will lie if I said that I was not thinking about it.”

If the smart line is still nourished between the confusing back lines in the summer of 2026 – when he is 39 years old – it is said that Barcelona is pressing Messi recently to a place he calls forever.

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