Xavi reveals 'green light' for Lionel Messi return to Barcelona as Joan Laporta 'lie' is exposed
Argentina legend Lionel Messi was product to re-indicator for Barcelona in January 2023 but Xavi discloses president Joan Laporta was the one “who recommended out on everything”.
The Argentina legend will definitely go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, player in the history of football once he inevitably hangs up his boots.
Messi has scored 795 objectives in 976 bar appearances and 115 objectives in 196 caps for Argentina through the forward winning everything the arcade has to implement, involving 8 Ballon d’Ors.
As a Barcelona player, Messi won 10 La Liga titles, 7 Copa del Reys, 7 Spanish Very Mugs, four Winners Leagues, 3 UEFA Very Mugs and 3 FIFA Bar Planet Mugs.
There were rumours earlier in the season that Inter Miami superstar Messi can rejoinder on loan to Europe in the winter months as he glimpsed to preserve sharp in drifter of the 2026 Planet Mug.
And Messi unleashed a stir in December once he earned an impromptu browse through to the Camp Nou, which is currently being redeveloped, in the past Argentina tinkered Spain in the global respite.
Obeying the browse through, Messi created on social media: “Last night I returned to a location I miss out on through all my heart.
“A location in which I was substantially confident, in which you all earned me feel a thousand times over like the happiest individual in the earth.
“I hope I can rejoinder someday, and not simply to claim bye-bye as a player, which I never got to do…”
That product off rumours that he can rejoinder to the Camp Nou in the past his playing job is over and currently Xavi has introduced that Barcelona straightened a bargain in January 2023.
Previous Barcelona head train Xavi has tasked Laporta of not alerting the reality around Messi’s case as the president of the Catalan titans tempted the plug on the bargain.
Chatting to La Vanguardia, Xavi defined: “Laporta doesn’t enlighten the reality there either. Leo was accepted. In January 2023, after becoming earth winner, we contacted and he notifies me that he is anxious to rejoinder and I go to him.
“Laporta started debating the arrangement through Leo’s papa and we had the green light from La Liga, but it is the president who recommended out on everything.
“Laporta told me that if Leo came earlier, there would be a wage combat and he couldn’t afford that. And then instantaneously Leo bested selecting up the phone since at the super same time they had told him that it can not be done.
“My zest is to enlighten the reality, which is that Messi is never reverting to Barcelona simply since Laporta doesn’t want that – it’s not since of La Liga or Jorge Messi inquiring for coinage, that’s all a lie.”
In public, Laporta firmly insisted earlier this season that he was “concocted to remediation anything” through the Messi camp in act to go to the Argentina super star rejoin in some capacity in the future.
Laporta told RTVE Catalunya in December: “The Messi introduce lugs out me heartbroken. I’m a Barca supporter, but overhanging everything is the college. If I were a member, I would become aware what the president did for the sweet of the bar.
“I accepted Messi’s first arrangement once he was 16. What we sustained through him is one of the most wonderful periods in Barca’s history, if not the most. He is entitled to a homage, a statue, complete admiration.
“It conversely relies on the other side. I am concocted to remediation anything. Messi has imparted a hefty quantity to Barca, and Barca has imparted a hefty quantity to him. I hope we rendezvous again someday.”
