Messi to Barcelona 🤝

 Like last year, Leo Messi is already the champion of Ligue 1, and it is one of the steps before starting to decide his future when the season ends with all the offers on the table.  A draw with PSG in Strasbourg was enough for him last night and he did it (1-1) after Leo opened the box with a pass from Mbappe (59').  Then Gameiro equalized (79), although his twelfth Argentine league title (10 in Barcelona and two in Paris Saint-Germain) did not escape him.  Messi participated in the party after scoring 16 goals and providing 16 assists (tournament leader), but he did not make any statements.

 The countdown to knowing his fate began with moderate optimism at FC Barcelona, ​​and he ended up signing, despite the astronomical offer from Al Hilal Saudi Arabia, unprecedented in the world of football.  Talks between the two parties are developing, with Joanne Laporta leading the process.  At the end of February, President Jorge Messi, the father of the star, met in Barcelona and since then there has been talk of the basis for salary conditions for a two-year contract, as reported by the MD on April 20, and of other kinds related to the rights of associations at the level of marketing.

 Everything is still at the expense of LaLiga which gives the green light to Barcelona's feasibility plan to move on and leave Barcelona's offer to Messi entirely in writing.  When asked by this newspaper, sources from Leo's environment confirmed that they had not received anything in writing or "nothing serious yet" although reliable sources from the Catalan club confirmed to MD that both Leo and his father know the criteria on which their file will be based.  In the event he ends up returning to what was his home for the next 21 years (2000-2021).  The idea Barcelona had, as our manager Santi Nola pointed out on April 22, is that they charge one euro more than Robert Lewandowski.  It will be a way to keep Leo at the top of the hierarchy after the commercial agreements that can be reached in parallel with the Argentine, whose mere presence could increase the club's income by 25%.

 Of course, Barcelona can't make a move until approval for LaLiga is confirmed, which could arrive next week or so at the latest.  Much should not be delayed.  As this newspaper reported yesterday, the first thing that FC Barcelona will do when it has the freedom to dispose of the treasury plan that requires two years (this and the third) without losses will be to register new contracts for Ronald Araujo and Jaffe.  Immediately after that, he will attack the signing of Leo Messi, a sporting priority like that of midfielder Xavi Hernandez, who clearly knows how to fit his teammate from 2004 to 2015 into his plan: between the lines and working more as a fourth midfielder.  than as a striker.

 Rosario is still waiting.  Invited to farewell ceremonies for Sergio Busquets on Wednesday (8:00pm) and Jordi Alba on Thursday (7:00pm), he has had training with PSG in those days leading up to Saturday's last game against Clermont which makes it difficult for him to do so.  so.  Go to Barcelona, ​​while Saudi Arabia's oil money is getting tighter and tighter, which makes Leo's father's phone ring.  Jaume Rores, co-founder of Mediapro, revealed that Al Hilal's offer increased from 400 to 500 million for one season.  The next few weeks will be crucial as Barcelona wait for LaLiga's goodness to carry out their transfer attack with the goal of making the vision of Leo leaping from the Blaugrana onto the grounds of the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys a reality.  It was on the magical mountain of Montjuïc that Messi made his official debut with the first team on October 16, 2004 against Espanyol.