Unexpected turn: Barcelona made a counter offer to Messi

The news arising from the “La Portería” program, by beteve, realizes that through its CEO, Ferran Reverter, the Catalans made a final offer to Messi, something that happened after his farewell speech this Sunday that had a profound impact on the Barcelona board of directors led by Joan Laporta, who today moved to Ibiza on vacation, which also fueled versions of a false contact.

Although some pain evidently persists in both parties and the “culé” leadership, punished by the words of the 34-year-old Rosario, try to get out of this mess as best as possible and throw an offer “a priori” with the “game over”, to respond to that phrase of Messi Sunday: “I offered to cut fifty percent of my salary, but it is a lie that the board asked me for more”.

And all this encouraged because speculation about his quick jump from the moment of the emotional farewell conference in Barcelona They fell one by one to the French capital as the hours passed, since it had even been assured in Parisian media that this Sunday night it would already be there.

Later it was warned that the arrival was going to take place on Monday morning to be able to carry out the medical examination, then sign the relevant contract and tomorrow, just day “10”, make the presentation to the entire orchestra at the Eiffel Tower, as it happened with his friend, the Brazilian Neymar, in 2017.

However, none of this happened and the day passed with more versions than facts, while Messi He spent part of his Monday with his family, at his residence in Castelldefels, and sharing some paddle games with his Uruguayan friend, Luis Suárez, and the Spanish Pepe Costa, who accompanies him everywhere, even when he goes to Argentina to play. by selection.

Pepe Costa works under the orders of Barcelona with the particular position of “facilitator of the footballers’ management”, which is nothing more than accompanying them to carry out all those procedures that, due to their public exposure, are difficult for them to carry out.

The delay in traveling from Messi had to do primarily with the “technical” details of his contract with PSG, since from the very leadership of the club managed by Qatari capitals it was implied today that the transfer of “Lío” to France would take place “within the next 72 hours”, although ensuring that the arrangement is done “one hundred percent “.

And those aspects to take into account have to do, as to have some empathic bond with Barcelona, in what PSG he would need to get rid of the salary mass and for this he would need to do without no less than 10 second-rate footballers within a squad full of stars.

Even the name of Mauro Icardi written down in the row of those who would leave, a bit for his salary and another because he was never in the same line as Messi Not since they briefly crossed paths in the Argentine national team, but because of an increasingly old issue of the scorer’s relationship with the model Wanda Nara, the ex-wife of Maximiliano López, who has just left the activity.

“Maxi” López is a friend of Javier Mascherano since he was a child in the lower teams of River and that is why Icardi even had his access to the Argentine team “vetoed” by several predecessors to Lionel scaloni.

The main interested in Icardi It is the Portuguese José Mourinho to take him to Roma, but attentive to the great team that is being assembled at PSG, the former Inter attacker prefers to continue fighting for a place in the French team, even when it is difficult for him to find his place within that constellation of stars that will light up the Parisian football sky.

A simpler solution for driving PSG In this release of the salary bill, it would be to access the requirements of Real Madrid and allow Kylian Mbappé He left for the Spanish club, which would represent a very good income of euros, something that the French entity does not see with such bad eyes because within a year the 22-year-old forward will end his contract and then he would leave without leaving a peso , What Messi of the ‘Barsa’.

However, his departure at this time would be “politically incorrect” and otherwise Mbappe he does not want to leave just now that he will be surrounded by Messi, Neymar, Sergio Ramos, Ángel Di María and company, which clearly makes him the exclusive candidate to stay with the next Champions League.

Even in the last hours PSG He had also aimed his guns at the hiring of the midfielder Paul Pogba, today at Manchester United English, but although the laxity in France with respect to the financial “fair play” allows him to make expenditures that in other European countries, such as Spain, would be impossible to realize, with the arrival of Messi that possibility deflated in the last hours.

Today was exactly 40 days since Messi he became a free player and his last game was the Copa América final against Brazil on July 10, a month ago.

And as things are, his return to official activity will take place wearing the Argentine shirt again on September 2 for South American qualifiers, where he will face an important string of matches in just 10 days in which he will play three games, since it was added in the window of next month the pending match of the fifth date against Uruguay, at home, which should have been played in March.

For that return to the activity of the national team, Scaloni will be giving the list of summoned next weekend. Perhaps by then it will be known with certainty what the future of Messi. Everything seems to indicate that he will go back to dressing as a “azulgrana”, but an hour and a half flight from Barcelona, in the no less romantic Paris. Although in Catalonia they try to keep him wearing his original shirt.

However, from Paris, the son of the president of Paris Saint Germain He flatly denied this version and asked that “Don’t play with the feeling of a great crowd like Barcelona’s”.

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