Lionel Messi has officially left Barcelona after canceling his contract extension due to a stalemate in the latest negotiations regarding Spanish LaLiga regulations.
Shocking news came from the Spanish La Liga. Argentine superstar Lionel Messi is confirmed to leave Barcelona after the club failed to overcome obstacles to realizing his new contract. As is known, Messi's contract with Barcelona ended on June 30, 2021. However, the superstar is believed to be signing a new contract this summer.
Unfortunately, this plan has now failed to materialize. The reason is that the two parties encountered new problems in the last negotiations which took place on Thursday (05/08/21) evening local time or Friday (06/08/21) early in the morning.
This was conveyed directly by the club management through their official statement. The club also blamed the Spanish LaLiga regulations for this failure.
"Although FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi have reached an agreement and both parties intend to sign a new contract today, it is certain that the new contract will not materialize due to financial and structural barriers (Spanish LaLiga regulations)," As a result of this situation, Lionel Messi will certainly not stay with Barcelona. Both parties are very sorry that the wishes of the club and the player cannot be fulfilled. "With this situation, Messi can freely negotiate with any club and move for free, thanks to his status as a free transfer player. Lionel Messi himself had previously been linked with Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City at the end of last season.
The two clubs are now believed to be back in pursuit of the Argentine superstar's signature, along with this latest development. As is known, Manchester City still needs a new striker after the departure of Sergio Aguero, who uniquely moved to Barcelona.
Meanwhile, Paris Saint-Germain is planning to build a super team to realize the dream of winning the Champions League.
Financially, these two clubs also have good enough finances to pay Messi's salary, making them the strongest candidates to get his services. Lionel Messi has scored 672 goals and 305 assists in 778 games with Barcelona, since his debut in October 2004. At the Blaugrana, Messi donated several titles including 10 Spanish La Liga and 4 Champions Leagues, as well as 2 treble winners. The beautiful story ended anticlimactically. Barcelona and Lionel Messi part ways ahead of the 2021/2022 season. It's not age, but financial and regulatory issues that make the two of them separate.
Barcelona was unable to meet La Liga's Financial Fair Play requirements to register Lionel Messi this season. In the end, the Catalan club canceled the contract that was originally going to be signed by the 33-year-old player.
There are many beautiful stories that Messi carved with Barcelona. He has won almost all competitive titles. Messi made a spectacular impression on the club, fans, teammates, and rivals.
After it was confirmed that he was no longer with Barcelona, there was a flood of tributes for Lionel Messi from his colleagues. Rumors of joining Lionel Messi to PSG were confirmed by the family of the owner of the French club from Qatar, Khalid bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.
As previously reported, Barcelona has officially announced that Lionel Messi will not renew his contract and can now leave for free to another club.
Hearing the news, PSG moved quickly to approach Messi. Their efforts are also claimed to have paid off, La Pulga will soon come to Paris. Through his personal Twitter account, Khalid bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani on Saturday (7/8/2021) early morning WIB uploaded the latest news from internal PSG regarding the recruitment of Messi.
"Negotiations are officially finished. And they will be announced later," wrote Khalid accompanied by a photo of Messi in PSG's uniform as a result of visual editing.
Please note, Khalid is the younger brother of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who is also the owner of Oryx Qatar Sports Investments, PSG's parent company. At PSG, Messi reportedly got a two-year contract with an option to extend for a year. La Pulga will receive a salary of 40 million euros or 679 billion rupiahs per year.
Furthermore, Messi is believed to have refused to take over the number 10 shirt at PSG from his former Barcelona partner, Neymar, who currently owns the number.
This is quite surprising considering the number 10 jersey is already very synonymous with Messi, both at Barcelona and in the Argentine national team.
Instead, it is claimed that Messi prefers to use the number 19 jersey, the number he also used at Barcelona before switching to number 10. According to French media L'Equipe, Messi has agreed to the personal terms proposed by PSG, namely a two-year contract with a salary of up to 40 million euros or 679 billion rupiahs per year.
Messi will also be PSG's umpteenth signing this summer, interestingly almost everything is obtained for free. The outline, PSG does offer a very tempting salary nominal.
Previously, PSG had secured the signatures of Georginio Wijnaldum, Sergio Ramos, and Gianluigi Donnaruma for free. Meanwhile, PSG only spent money when they signed Achraf Hakimi from Inter Milan.