Messi started a great second season with PSG. Photo: Getty.
The sports director of Paris Saint-Germain, Luis Campos, assured this Sunday that they are holding talks with the Argentine Lionel Messi to extend his contract, which ends at the end of this season.
“We are negotiating. I do not want to hide that I would like to have him in this project, that he can continue with us,” Campos said on TF1 television.
Yes a few months ago the extension of his contract seemed a matter of small details, things have gotten somewhat complicated in recent weeks, after the return of Messi from Argentina with the World title won in Qatar.
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“I would be happy if it continued, but we are in negotiations at the moment to try to make it happen, to continue having Leo Messi with us,” he said.
Messi celebrates his second season at PSG, where he arrived in the summer of 2021 from Barcelonawhere he has spent most of his career.
After a difficult first year, the player is completing a great second season and he was key this Saturday in PSG’s victory against Toulouse.
Campos assured that at half-time he spoke with the Argentine, whom he He asked to drag the team to victory and the player replied: “calm down”, before completing a great second half in which he scored a goal.
Messi’s contribution to the team is now more key than ever, after the absence due to injury of the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé, who will miss the key first leg of the Champions League round of 16 match against Bayern Munich on the 14th.
