BARCELONA, 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Argentine player Leo Messi headed to Paris in the summer of 2021 without being able to say goodbye to the fans of FC Barcelona, the club where he grew up and played until last season, which is why the Blaugrana president, Joan Laporta, wants and hopes that the historic ’10’ can have a farewell tribute at the Camp Nou in front of his fans, and points to 2024 as the “fantastic” date with the entity’s 125th anniversary.
As Europa Press has learned, Joan Laporta’s idea is to give Leo Messi carte blanche so that he can have his farewell before his fans “whenever he wants”, although he would see it as a golden opportunity to do so, with all honours, in the framework of that 125th anniversary, in November 2024.
In addition, the Blaugrana president firmly believes that it is possible to redirect the current situation between club and player, especially at an “institutional” level. And one way to achieve this would be to agree on that well-deserved tribute to a Leo Messi who, with 778 games, is the player with the most duels played in the club’s history, as well as being its top scorer with 678 goals.
Dream figures that scare anyone who seeks to match him. But this does not mean that, in August 2021, his departure was made official after not renewing his extinct contract. A difficult situation for both parties, but the club chose not to sacrifice competitiveness in the squad at the cost of dedicating most of its reduced resources to renewing the ’10’.
“Messi will have his farewell whenever he wants. And it would be fantastic to do it on the 125th anniversary. He didn’t leave happy because he didn’t understand why he couldn’t continue. He would like not to have left,” Laporta explained in a meeting with the media in which he was Europe Press.
However, with the passing of the months and with the player at Paris Saint-Germain, from the Blaugrana club they believe that the Argentine, despite the anger felt at the time, already understands the decision of a FC Barcelona that then did not He wanted to compromise his economic viability and rejected the pact with the investment fund CVC that LaLiga proposed and that would have allowed Messi to register.