While the pre-candidates for Barça’s presidency are thinking of a way to try to convince Leo Messi to renew as a coach and end his career at the Camp Nou, Neymar Júnior is starting his particular strategy from Paris. Or, rather, from Manchester, because the Brazilian striker took advantage of the mixed zone after PSG’s victory at Old Trafford (1-3) to send a very clear and forceful message about the happiness that would generate playing a again with the Rosario striker: “What I want most is to be with Leo again on a football field. He could occupy my position, no problem. I want to play with him and I’m sure next year he will we have to do it. “
Messi explodes: “I’m tired of always being a problem”
Right now, a year and a half after Barça failed to recapture Neymar to please Messi and the Barça dressing room, the Argentine and the Brazilian are more likely to meet again at the Parc dels Príncipes than at the Camp Nou. The reason is clear: on the 10th his contract expires on June 30, next month he could freely negotiate with another club and PSG is one of the few in the world with a financial muscle strong enough to approach the contractual figures of a footballer who has won five Golden Balls and four Champions. Neymar’s statements are not innocent. Rather the opposite: they are pressuring the Qatari property of PSG to make an economic effort to recruit Messi in a time of monetary weakness of Barça, which has just agreed to a salary deferral to avoid bankruptcy, and also institutional, as the The entity must elect a president at the end of January and is currently governed by a management committee.
“The world does not end if Messi leaves”
As ARA published two weeks ago, Messi is now much more worried about seeing what doors will open in the coming months than to waiting for the pre-election candidates to start seducing him to retire to the Camp. We. He is still more excited about the idea of trying his luck in another team than continuing to accumulate miles dressed as a Barça player. He will turn 34 in June, and he knows he doesn’t have much time left to stay at the top of the world. However, Barça’s presidential candidate Joan Laporta does not throw in the towel. “I haven’t talked to him about the renewal, I need to have the authority to be president in order to do so, but there are certainly imaginative solutions for him to continue at the club,” he told Catalunya Ràdio. However, he has not made a defense until the last consequences of his continuity: “It’s better that he continues, but the world does not end if Messi leaves.”
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