“Beautiful stories, in life, have to end well”
BARCELONA, 31 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president and of the sports area of FC Barcelona, Rafa Yuste, assured that the club has “contacts” with Leo Messi’s entourage and added, in a personal capacity, that he would “love” him to return so that the story ended well, after not being able to renew him and that the ’10’ went to Paris Saint-Germain, his current club.
“If we talk about Masia, about grassroots football, we are talking about Leo because he came at the age of 12. Of course I would love for him to come back, I say it in a personal capacity but there would also be a lot of fans who would share my words. Yes, we have contacts, for of course, with them”, assured Yuste.
At a club event, the presentation of the Barça Academy World Cup, Yuste laughingly said “don’t ask me the question” when he saw that it was about Leo Messi. But he responded to the question in this way, which was if he would ask the Argentine, if he saw him, to come back, as well as if he would like him and if there are contacts.
“I would say yes to everything,” the vice president replied. “Leo knows and his family knows the affection we have for them and I have them in this case, I participated in the negotiations that unfortunately did not come to fruition. I have always had and still have that thorn in us that Leo could not continue in our club” , be sincere.
“I would love it for what it could represent at a sporting, social, economic level, etc., but I also believe that beautiful stories, in life, have to end well,” concluded the first vice president and right hand of the president, Joan Laporta, before that possible, and hypothetical, return of the Argentine to Spotify Camp Nou.