Lionel Messi has taken step one in the direction of staying in Barcelona subsequent season, after his father informed membership president Joan Laporta that he now not needs to go away.
Messi’s father Jorge acts as trustee and consultant and was closely concerned within the fallout a 12 months in the past when the participant declared that he needed to go away and submitted a switch request.
It was blocked on the time by former president Jose Maria Bartomeu and Messi was pressured to remain on the membership towards his will.
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With just one 12 months left within the enterprise, it appeared as if 2020/21 could be his final season as a Barcelona participant. However Bartomeu has since been changed by Laporta, who has relationship with the captain and sees him as a central a part of the staff in the long run.
Reviews earlier this 12 months instructed that Messi had made quite a lot of calls for if he was to remain on the membership. He needed critical modifications within the membership’s disastrous recruitment technique, as properly as a concentrate on youth improvement to revive the id that introduced the membership to prominence underneath Pep Guardiola.
He made this clear in discussions with Laporta, and it was reported on Thursday that the participant’s father met the president and left him “very constructive” about Messi’s future.
The outcomes of those talks have now been revealed by the Spanish TV station RTVE, which experiences that Messi needs to remain.
? Según ha podido bekräftar TVE, Leo Messi ha dado el primer paso para quedarse en el Barça.
His father and agent, Jorge Messi, met with President Joan Laporta to announce that Leo’s intention was to comply with Barça.
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– TVE Telediarios (@telediario_tve) April 29, 2021
It’s doubtless that Messi could have to take a major pay reduce to safe a brand new deal. His present wage is off the size; Mundo Deportivo reported again in January that he contains 138 million euros per season, sufficient to make him ‘the very best paid athlete within the historical past of the game.’
These estimates appear to be on the excessive aspect, however in any case it’s doubtless {that a} 10-20% decline can be required given Barca’s monetary scenario.
Nevertheless, his wage just isn’t doubtless to be a hard and fast level. Messi’s major considerations are the golf equipment’ sustainability in the long run and their means to compete at the highest of European soccer. Now he appears satisfied that they’re properly positioned on each fronts, a brand new deal might not be too distant.
