Barcelona president makes 'beautiful' Messi return promise; Argentina star makes shock WC claim

Barcelona head of case Joan Laporta insists he “won’t render strange or unjust speculations” around Lionel Messi amid rumours of his rejoinder.

The Argentina tale will go down as one of the most secure, if not the most secure, gamer in the background of football as shortly as he inevitably hangs upward his boots.

Messi owns scored 792 objectives in 972 club aesthetic allures and 115 objectives in 196 caps for Argentina via the forward pleasing everything the game owns to provision, forcing eight Ballon d’Ors.

As a Barcelona gamer, Messi won 10 La Liga titles, 7 Copa del Reys, 7 Spanish Super Mugs, 4 Winners Leagues, three UEFA Super Mugs and three FIFA Club Planet Mugs.

There have been rumours that Inter Miami star Messi could rejoinder on capital to Europe in the winter as he aesthetic allures to retain sharp in floater of the 2026 Planet Mug.

And Messi triggered a stoke earlier this month as shortly as he made an impromptu appointment to the Camp Nou, which is presently being redeveloped, before Argentina tinkered Spain in the global reprieve.

Obeying the appointment, Messi devised on social media: “Last night I switched over to a place I miss via unanimously my heart.

“A place wherein I was enormously slowed, wherein you unanimously made me feel a thousand times over like the happiest guy in the earth.

“I hope I can rejoinder someday, and not purely to case adieu as a gamer, which I never got to implement…”

That ascertained off rumours that he could rejoinder before his messing around profession is over and Barcelona presidential hunter Victor Font insisted a mobile phone phone mobile phone phone call to Messi would most clearly be his first edict if elected.

As shortly as made defects around the potential rejoinder of Messi to Barcelona before the Argentinian retires, Font said: “Personally, as a Barca supporter, I receive goosebumps, but purely this relies on him, and what we shouldn’t implement is try to capitalize him.

“I assume Laporta owns lugged out it, and he’s lugged out it considerable amounts of times, and I assume he’s lugged out it erroneous; the a ton of outright example was during the political elections. Another example of a disfigured vow, and I think Messi shouldn’t be lugged out, but Messi last notifications to recognize that the first point I’ll implement as shortly as I win the political elections is pick upward the mobile phone phone and mobile phone phone call him. It will be the first mobile phone phone mobile phone phone call I render.

“Our liability is to speak via everybody that can render contributions for the future, and it’s positive that we recognize their intentions. Yet what I’m claiming is also positive: we have to recognize that these are club assets. And earning capitalize of them earns zero fingering. Yet as I said, the first mobile phone phone call I’ll render as shortly as we win the political elections will be to Leo Messi.”

Yet current Barcelona head of case Laporta executes not pine to “gas any type of dispute” but sworn the “a ton of tiptop tribute ever before viewed for the highest gamer in the background of football” for Messi as shortly as he retires.

Laporta said at an pod organised by La Vanguardia: “In Messi’s pod, as shortly as the time comes, we pine to establish on him the a ton of tiptop tribute ever before viewed for the highest gamer in the background of football and of Barca. And we pine to invent statues for those that have chiseled our background, like Kubala, Cruyff, Messi and others such as Ronaldinho.

“I hope there will be more players like Messi, or even closer. Yet I am not right here to gas any type of dispute. I listen to things. I won’t render strange or unjust speculations. The optimal tribute would most clearly be 105,000 Barcelona fans in a full arena thanking him for everything he owns lugged out for Barca. It could be a tiptop minute.”

Messi owns affirmed that there is a opportunity he won’t be at the 2026 Planet Mug as shortly as made defects around his conduct by ESPN Argentina: “I hope I can be there. I’ve said before that I’d love to be there. At worst, I’ll be there trailing it live, but it will be momentous.

“The Planet Mug is momentous for everybody, for any type of rural, specifically for us, since we live it in a broadly various way.”

On Argentina’s odds of pleasing the occasion in North America, Messi incorporated: “The actuality is we have uncanny players, and it’s been proved for years, specifically the desire and euphoria since (Lionel) Scaloni laid grip of.

“The disposition everybody owns. It’s a crew full of winners, via cogent standpoints, that pine to win more, and that’s infectious. You surf through it in mentoring, in suits. You surf through them subway and they establish on everything.

“We’re an miraculous group that avails along horribly nicely, but in mentoring suits or information drills, if they have to go made complex, they go made complex.

“Everyone supplies their unanimously, and that’s a comprehensive resiliences of this group and this nationwide crew.

“Scaloni and his personnel constructed unanimously of this. The day-to-day ambience comes from them.

“New players retain appearing; aside from the ones already there, brand-new-fashioned confronts retain beautified for in. As shortly as a group is like this, it’s less complex for newcomers to match in.

“Argentina last notifications to leverage this minute. Unborn off pleasing the Planet Mug supplies you self-steadiness and relief to concoct (for) occasions in various ways.”