The president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, expressed in the early hours of this Friday his wish that Leo Messi, with whom the Barça club has “a moral debt”, can finish his career “with the Barça shirt”.
“Messi’s stage at Barça did not end as we all wantedended up very conditioned for economic reasons,” Laporta said in New York, in statements released this Friday by the Spanish press.
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“I think that at Barça we have a moral debt with Leo Messi in this sensewe would like the end of his career to be with the Barça shirt and being applauded by all the fields wherever he goes”, considered the Barça president.
It is about to be a year since August 8, 2021 in which Messi gave a press conference to say goodbye to Barcelona between tearsafter 16 years in the first team in which he won 34 titles.
“I would have liked to say goodbye in another way: I never imagined my farewell because the truth is that I didn’t think about it,” said the Argentine star, whose signing for PSG was announced a few days later.
Laporta then explained that had been forced to let Messi go due to the disastrous financial situation of the club and La Liga salary cap rules.
The president of the Barça declared now his desire to see Messi dressed as a Barça player againalthough he made it clear that “this is an aspiration, nothing has been discussed”.
“It is an aspiration that I have as president of Barça and that I would like it to happen because I have also been responsible for this ending that has hadLaporta explained.
“I think it’s a provisional ending because I think we’ll get this aspiration that we have is a reality”, added the Barça president.
Laporta responded to the press in this way after this week some Spanish media pointed out that the Barça coach, Xavi Hernández, would have asked the club’s management to study the possibility of having the Argentine againwhose contract with PSG ends in June 2023.
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Asked about the signing of Jules Koundé made official just a few hours before, the president of Barcelona assured that “we are trying to comply with the will of the coach”.
“We are happy with the decisions we are taking to strengthen our workforce and make a very competitive team that can participate in all competitions with the intention of winning themLaporta said.
