“We don’t think about Messi coming back”

Joan Laportapresident of FC Barcelonaassured that it is not considered that Leo Messi come back next season Camp Nou coming from Paris Saint Germainwhere he has a contract until 2023. In the interview with the program ‘You will say’ in RAC 1the president was clear when asked by the Argentine: “Right now there is no fluid communication and I do not speak with him. There is no personal contact. He is in Paris but I remember him with affection. If he is sad? I know what is said but I don’t talk to him. I hear comments from people close to me, Barcelona He shoots a lot, he has a lovely family and I felt bad almost more for the family than for him,” he said before adding about his departure from the club that put the institution before the best footballer in history: “For me it sure wasn’t easy, but as it happened, I thought that before it was the institution, I couldn’t put it at more risk. I think we did what we had to do”.

As for itself Messi could go back to Camp Nousaid: “I have not received any message from Leo nor from its environment to return. The truth is that at this time we do not consider it. We are building a young team, combined with people with some experience making a good symbiosis that works again. But Leo is Leo, the best player in the world, also recognized. He deserves respect as a player and as a person and in the mood that came he is a winner but it is something that we did not consider.”

Firm in his ambitious speech: “I want to win the League”

Asked if now he is excited about the Europa Leaguewas more ambitious and insisted on what he said in the interview with Mundo Deportivo published this Saturday: “I want to win the League. I do not sign win Europa League and qualify for the Champions. We have a team to win the Leaguewe arrived well at the last stage of the competition, with a coach who makes it a movie and is more eager than me to win the League”. In this sense, she abounded in praise for Xavi: “He is doing fantastic, we are already enjoying it. At the beginning of the season I suffered. Now we play as we want and we score goals. Everything has a process Xavi has returned to the origins and the players who have joined in winter have adapted well”. And about whether he can be on the bench until 2026, Laporta agreed: “I would almost guarantee that he will be the coach of my term.”

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