“Messi is a happy guy in Miami. Here he has found peace for him, his family and allows him to do business,” says those who have followed the steps of the Argentine since his arrival in the US in July 2023. The '10' has managed to put together a microcosm on the Inter, a team made to his measure. Just the opposite of what happened to him in the PSG, with which he now reunites in the eighths of the Club World Cup (Sunday, 18:00 hours). The thunder box will open, where there is also some improved memory with the Galo coach, Luis Enrique, which Messi has on top, along with Guardiola, as a sports professional, but with whom he lived clashes in Barça.
The everlasting temptation of Arabia
The world champion leaves his comfort zone for a day after taking the club that has changed the 'soccer' in the US to a elimination phase in which he did not have to be. However, Messi's foot continues to light the way. It does so in a context of relative sports demand, where the most important thing is the generation of business that has been mounted around its figure. The '10' mark has developed to the limit and is what interests you most now. In the air is its renewal. At the moment, he has a contract until the end of this year, when the regular MLS season ends.
Messi and Redondo celebrate an Inter Miami goal. / Gustavo Amador / EFE
The Club World Cup, conceived in Miami around its figure, has served to return the Sirena Sirena songs around them. Sources from the League of the Middle East have, that the offer of 500 million per season will always be there, With Al Hilal as a favorite place to convert the Saudi Pro League in the last dance of the dichotomy that has changed football: Messi – Cristiano. The Argentine has not yet pronounced on his future, which does not pass so much through one or another sports place, but for the business part.
It was precisely a trip to the country that tempts him who began to break the relationship between that of Rosario and the PSG. On May 1, 2023, after a defeat against Lorient, Messi was absent from a training to fulfill an advertising commitment in Saudi Arabia. He did, according to the Galo club, without permission, so he was sanctioned two weeks without salary. In addition, he had to apologize in a video that his surroundings considered humiliating. Everyone knew that without Barça's economic problems would never have gone.
PSG, the club that should never enter Leo's life
The tears for the departure of the one that is still his house have dried. Not so the resentment for what was lived in the French capital, where neither he nor his family managed to adapt. After conquering the World Cup in Qatar, with which Messi closed his virtuous circle, the PSG was eliminated in the eighth of Champions against Bayern. Neymar's injury, faced with Mbappé, who had the support of Al-Khelaifi at that timeended up burying the Qatar team in a spiral of negativity that pointed directly to Leo.
PSG fans protested against Messi, intimidating their family, which caused their departure from the club. / Mohammed Badra / EFE
In the matches in the Park of the Princes he received whistles. The tension climbed in such a way that the PSG ultras came to harass the players in their homes with banners that put: “Messi, outside”, accompanied by songs as “mercenary” and “you have no respect for the club”. The entity had to strengthen the security of what Lionel considered as a translated red line. The well -being of his family was the main one, so when he felt they were also the subject of harassment, he decided to put together a new life plan that has come perfectly in Miami.
Interestingly, he has been a bellicose coach like Luis Enrique who has found social peace in the PSG, which he has made European champion without the stars of the past. A admonished costumes to his character, who entered into dispute with that of Messi in Barça. The most notorious incident occurred after the 2015 Christmas break, when the '10' protested vehemently in a training by a play that did not whistle 'Lucho' as a referee. Shouts were heard and the episode continued in the locker room. Messi gets out of the next training and was a substitute.
Despite the clash, the relationship was quickly redirected. The tandem led the historic 2014/2015 season, achieving the League, Cup and Champions triplet. Time later, Luis Enrique would recognize: “Until everything was solved there was a tension time … but I can only say wonders of Leo Messi.” The player also buried the war ax: “We had a conflict, but it was resolved and then we had a fantastic relationship. “However, in France, the wounds are still open. “Messi, not everything is forgiven,” title L'Equipe, putting the Argentine in the trigger, not only for not having fulfilled objectives with the PSG, but for having frustrated the Blue Qatar's World Cup dream.
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