Barcelona will sign Lionel Messi in January 2023

KOMPA.com – Barcelona will try to catch up Lionel Messi in the 2023 winter transfer market. Their destruction in the 2022-23 Champions League was the trigger.

The blaugrana, nicknamed Barcelona, ​​just had a bad time. The Spanish League giants were knocked out of the 2022-23 Champions League group stage because they lost to Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.

The inability to enter the group stage of Europe’s highest caste club competition makes Barcelona ready to do something more spectacular in January 2023.

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Barcelona president Joan Laporta will do everything to improve the quality of the team, including bringing Lionel Messi back to Camp Nou.

Understandably, the striker nicknamed La Pulga is the player with the best club history.

Messi left Barcelona in the summer of 2021 on a free transfer.

The Argentine national team striker has decided to join Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).

“The era of the Lion did not end as we all wanted,” Laporta told the media before the Ballon d’Or gala.

“We have a moral debt with him and we want to end his career with the Barcelona shirt.”

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According to Spanish media, Sport, Barcelona is determined to sign the Argentine international, whose time at the Parc des Princes expires at the end of the 2022-23 season.

However, Barca doesn’t want to wait until summer. They want to quickly bring La Pulga back to Camp Nou in January 2023 when the winter transfer window opens.

But Sport claims that Barca’s efforts will not be easy. Because PSG does not want to sell Messi to any team and does not even want to have talks with the Catalans given their bad relationship.

In fact, Messi has a stellar track record during his time at Camp Nou from promotion to Barca’s first team in July 2005 through August 2021.

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In total, Messi was involved in 778 official matches with a contribution of 672 goals and 303 assists for the Azulgrana home.

The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner presented a number of prestigious titles including 10 Spanish La Liga trophies and four Champions League titles.

Messi’s departure had a significant impact on Barcelona.

The proof, in the last two seasons the Catalans have not moved in the Champions League because they were immediately eliminated in the group stage and sunk into the Europa League.

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