Barcelona president Joan Laporta has rejected reports that the team might bring Lionel Messi back on loan for just one game, but he has reaffirmed his goal to bring the forward back for a respectable farewell at a later date.
In 2021, Messi severing his nearly two-decade association with Barcelona. Due to their inability to register his new contract in accordance with La Liga’s stringent financial regulations, the club was forced to release him.
According to 90 min, Messi was expected to return to Barcelona following two mainly miserable seasons with Paris Saint-Germain, but he opted to sign with MLS team Inter Miami instead.
According to recent reports, Barcelona may try to send Messi back on loan for one game in order to bid him a fitting farewell. However, Laporta acknowledged that he is not sure if this is compliant with FIFA regulations.
“There will be time to talk about it [Messi’s return]. There are all kinds of reports, but I don’t think that’s even allowed by FIFA,” Laporta said to EFE of a one-game loan.
“We are open to doing it when they [Messi and his family] want to do it. Messi is the best player in history and, given how much we respect and admire him, of course he deserves a tribute at Barcelona.
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“I don’t know if it will be when we return to the Spotify Camp Nou at the end of 2024 or when the stadium is fully built by July 2026.”
When questioned about why Messi wasn’t signed by Barcelona during the summer transfer window aporta replied: “It was left a bit in limbo. In the end it didn’t happen, because what he told us was totally logical. Because of the pressure he had been under in Paris, he preferred to go to Inter Miami, because that would give him a certain stability. It was a decision we respected.”
When Inter Miami plays his boyhood club Newell’s Old Boys in February, Messi will get to reunite with one of his other former teams.
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