Lionel Messi, who enjoys a two-day leave granted to the Paris Saint-Germain squad, traveled to Barcelona with his family and settled in his home in that city, to which he had not returned since before the World Cup in Qatar.
The Rosario star, who on Sunday gave PSG the agonizing victory against Lille 4-3 with a great goal from a free kick, will remain in the Spanish city until Tuesday and on Wednesday he will join training with the rest of his teammates in Paris, according to the Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo.
Coach Christophe Galtier decided to grant two days of leave to the Parisian team’s squad before facing the final stretch towards the classic against Marseille, to be played next Sunday at the “Velodrome” stadium in Marseille. Olympique de Marseille eliminated PSG from the French Cup 10 days ago and on Sunday the Ligue 1 classic will be played again between the leader and his five-point escort.
Meanwhile, last week the player’s father, Jorge Messi, was in Barcelona after negotiating with Al Khelaifi, owner of PSG, in Paris about the renewal of the Argentine star’s contract. Talks about Messi’s continuity at PSG remain stalled for now, pending another meeting with the leaders of the Parisian team.
However -according to French media outlets- and despite the Messi’s first refusal, PSG hopes to be able to “convince the player” to continue until 2024 and for this the intention of the club is to offer him a substantial economic improvement .
Regarding a hypothetical return of “Leo” to Barcelona, Jorge Messi maintained days ago that today “the conditions” are not given for a return of the world champion to the Blaugrana team, as has been speculated in recent weeks in the media Iberian country.
In terms of football, another important challenge for the “10” in the coming weeks will be to turn around the complicated round of 16 series of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, since the German team beat PSG 1-0 last Tuesday in the French capital. The faucet will close on March 8 in Germany.
