Joan Laporta hints Lionel Messi could return to Barcelona

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has steered that Lionel Messi may rejoin the membership sooner or later and that he ‘owes’ it to the Argentine to facilitate such a transfer.

Messi needed to finish his 21-year keep in Catalonia final summer season following the expiration of his contract as Barça couldn’t renew his deal beneath La Liga’s strict monetary rules.

The legendary ahead went on to signal for Paris Saint-Germain, although has not hit the identical heights within the French capital to date.

Chatting with ESPN, Laporta hailed Messi as Barcelona’s finest ever participant and insisted he want to carry him again to Camp Nou sooner or later.

“Messi has been every part, for Barça he has probably been the perfect participant in historical past, essentially the most environment friendly, solely corresponding to Johan Cruyff within the historical past of Barça,” Laporta mentioned.

“However it needed to occur sooner or later, we needed to decide as a consequence of the legacy [financial trouble] we had obtained [from predecessor Josep Maria Bartomeu].

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

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

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