SportsLionel Messi Agrees To Conditional Stay At Barca

Lionel Messi Agrees To Conditional Stay At Barca

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BEVERLY HILLS, May 01, (THEWILL) – Reports monitored by THEWILL from Spain indicate that Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has agreed to a reduced contract at Barcelona, with the terms being that the Catalan club becomes more ambitious and sensible in the transfer market with the offset from the new contract.

The close relationship between club president, Joan Laporta, and Messi has helped to smooth over the issues at stake when the striker attempted to force a transfer during the summer and, with the new outlook of the management, the six-time Ballon d’Or winner has expressed his willingness to accept the reduced terms and stay to Laporta, contingent on the terms.

The contingency is founded on the capacity of the club to squarely contend with the best in Europe next season, which implies smart and decidedly considerable investment in the market to strengthen the Barca squad and reposition it for a successful return to the days of Laporta’s first tenure as club president.

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Apart from Ronald Koeman’s interest in fortifying their forward structure, with a player like Memphis Depay, a potential target, Laporta has informed Messi that the club are set to begin negotiating a deal for Borussia Dortmund’s masterful goal machine, Erling Haaland. To afford such prolific talent was going to cost Barca and it was the basis of bringing it to fruition that Messi welcomed a reduction to his current wages in a new deal.

THEWILL recalls that Ligue 1 heavyweights, Paris Saint-Germain, to reignite the brilliant football combination between their Brazilian playmaker Neymar and Messi, had offered the latter terms to bring him to the Parc des Princes, with significant difference to his wages, which might see some increases rather than the reduction he was bound to get if he remained at the Camp Nou.

But, Messi, for whom it had never been seen to be about the money, believed it a priority to remain at Barca as long as they show that requisite ambition, which has marked the Argentine’s delivery for the side. Messi has witnessed the developmental strides taking place and the promise of the club’s new hierarchy to work with him and his demands as far as they advance the progressive path the Catalan side is witnessing.

The things happening at the moment at Barca, which give Messi hope, include the audit Laporta ordered to determine the club’s current financial situation so as to present the club accurately to those willing to fund their progress to have enough to sign Haaland from Dortmund. For this purpose, Laporta is currently in talks with an investment firm.

The consummate administrator that the club president had always been makes the club faithful believe that they can steal the Haaland transfer in the summer ahead of any other team. Another basis for the confidence of Laporta getting Haaland is the admirable working relationship that exists between Laporta and Haaland’s football agent, Mino Raiola.

Under Koeman, performances at the Camp Nou have witnessed an uptick that banished the initial sluggish season start the team had in the early days of the 2020/2021 campaign. Messi’s return to form coincided with the team’s resurgence and they carried that form, with the ever decisive contributions of team captain Messi helping them to the season’s Copa del Rey title.

They are currently joint second on the league standings, and could very well had been on top but for Thursday’s shocking 2-1 defeat to Granada.

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Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.

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Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.

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