Mercato – PSG: The huge revelations of Barcelona on the Messi soap opera! – The 10 Sport

Posted on August 16, 2021 at 3:15 p.m. by GdSS

While Lionel Messi finally landed at PSG this summer when he was initially scheduled to extend to FC Barcelona, ​​Catalan President Joan Laporta explains behind the scenes of this failure.

It is one of the biggest operations in the history of modern football, if not the largest: Lionel Messi has signed up freely with the PSG this summer, signing a two-year contract + an optional year. However, initially, the Argentine striker had struck a deal with the FC Barcelona to extend with his club of always, and the president blaugrana Joan laporta confided this Monday at a press conference on the underside of this huge unforeseen failure with Messi.

“We tried everything to prolong Messi”

“ We did everything we could with Messi within the club’s financial possibilities and that’s what I would do again, because that’s what I’ve always said. If La Liga had been flexible, we could have kept Leo. If we thought of extending Messi, it is because we had the provisional budget of the old management. As the budget was wrong, we had to review our position to find out the real situation. And we still tried everything. We shook hands, the contract was drawn up. Then at the end, we saw that the two parties could not sign. We wanted to sell and lower wages to register Messi. La Liga offered us in exchange, to sell the rights of Barca. La Liga gave us false hope when they said they allowed us a margin to sign Messi. At the end of the day, they tell us that we have to sign a deal to do it. Messi considered that he had already made a lot of efforts, and it is true, to get into the payroll that Barça could have », Assures Laporta. And Messi then decided to go to the PSG…