Ansu Fati hoping to reunite with Lionel Messi at Barcelona

Barcelona starlet Ansu Fati has revealed he want to see membership legend Lionel Messi again on the membership as a result of he ‘deserves’ extra after the way in which his 21 years at Camp Nou got here to an finish.

Messi joined Paris Saint-Germain final summer season regardless of agreeing a brand new contract with Barcelona. The membership’s nonetheless ongoing monetary woes meant that have been unable to register the brand new deal and keep in compliance with La Liga’s strict wage caps laws.

Slashing wages and offloading gamers earlier than having the ability to register signings has been a recurring theme for the Catalans in current summers after years of monetary mismanagement. Messi, who had requested to depart in 2020 earlier than altering his thoughts, turned a sufferer of it.

The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner hasn’t hit he identical heights since becoming a member of PSG. Though nonetheless prolific with assists, his tally of six targets in Ligue 1 final season was the primary time he had did not hit double digits in a league marketing campaign since 2005/06 when he was 18.

“Messi? Sure I would really like him again. He deserves a greater finish in Barcelona, he’s the most effective participant in historical past,” Fati informed native broadcaster TV3.

Fati, who ended up inheriting Barcelona’s iconic quantity 10 shirt final yr, isn’t the primary this week to precise hope of working with Messi once more.

President Joan Laporta has made related feedback, expressing hope that the door isn’t closed on some form of reunion sooner or later.

“Messi has been all the pieces, for Barça he has presumably been the most effective participant in historical past, essentially the most environment friendly, solely corresponding to Johan Cruyff within the historical past of Barca,” Laporta stated over the weekend.

“Nevertheless it needed to occur at some point, we needed to decide as a consequence of the legacy [financial trouble] we had acquired [from predecessor Josep Maria Bartomeu].

“The establishment is above gamers and coaches, however I feel, I want, that the Messi chapter just isn’t over but at Barca and I feel our duty is to make sure that this open chapter, which has not but been closed, has a superb second wherein it may be completed because it ought to have been completed and, as well as, has a way more splendid ending than it had.

“Because the president of Barca, I feel I did what I needed to do. However on a private degree and likewise as president, I feel I owe him.”

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