Leo Messi has not yet renewed and his contract with PSG ends next June, which keeps the debate on his future open. The options seem to be to continue in Paris, leave the football elite to go to a minor league or return to Barça, an option that for Gerard Piqué would be “very beast”, as he explained in an extensive interview in ‘El món to Rac1’.
“For the Catalans, for the people who love the club and who have known about Leo’s relationship since the day he arrived at Barça, for everything he has made us live and feel, for him to return on a sentimental level would be very beast. As much as people can make him think in a way, they will decide his feelings, what he believes, his motivation…”, explained the ex-player.
Piqué shared a dressing room with the Argentine in the lower categories of the Barça club and later, from 2008, they coincided in the first team during the most successful period in the club’s history. The man from Rosario closed his stage in tears at the end of the 2020-21 season, with the central defender present at the emotional farewell ceremony, while the Catalan continued in the team and hung up his boots last November.
“Only he knows Leo’s future. He has won the World Cup, his great dream. The title he needed to be the best in history. The few people who were missing are already convinced. What he decides now is personal. It will depend on where do you think you will find happiness and motivation. If you want to continue in Europe, Barça could enter into your plans and if you already have enough, perhaps you will go to the MLS in the United States”, he added.
The Argentine reached the peak of his unrivaled career on December 18, when he added the World Cup in Qatar to his record, the only title he was missing. After the World Cup event, Messi has experienced the bitter face of football after PSG was eliminated at the hands of Bayern in the Champions League, which was the great objective of the Parisians.
Off the top of the continental competition, the fight for Ligue 1 is too small for a team that has, among others, Messi, Mbappé and Neymar, now injured. The new European failure has opened the debate in the environment of the French champion on the suitability of keeping his three star strikers.
