He announced the signing of six-time golden ball Lionel Messi, who left FC Barcelona, for the Paris Saint-Germain football club on Tuesday night.
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According to the PSG website, the 34-year-old striker’s contract is for two seasons and can be extended for another year.
FC Barcelona announced last Thursday that both the club and Messi had a clear intention to continue together, and they agreed, but the signing of the contract could not happen in the end due to “financial and structural obstacles”, i.e. Spanish football league rules. The new agreement was planned for five seasons and would have received only half of its salary so far, but La Liga’s financial rules made it impossible to extend it nonetheless because it would not have complied with the provisions on pay caps. However, the Due to the speed of the agreement with PSG, it can be assumed that the whole thing was just a play, during which time a contract of this weight cannot be negotiated, taking into account the specialties as well (e.g. Messi’s sponsor is Adidas, PSG’s Nike, Messi has so far also owned his own image rights).
The attacker has been in Barcelona colors since 2000, but his contract expired at the end of June, so he became verifiable for free. The adult team has scored 672 goals in 778 matches since 2004, both club records. He has won the Champions League four times, the Club World Championship and the European Super Cup three times, the championship ten times, and the King’s Cup and the Spanish Super Cup seven times. Among his numerous individual awards – in addition to the six Golden Balls – stand out are the six European Golden Shoes and the eight Spanish top scorers.
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According to local media reports, Messi did not accept the offer to take over Neymar’s jersey number 10, instead playing at 30 after it was his first jersey number in Barcelona. The 30th jersey is reserved for goalkeepers in France, but at the request of the PSG, the French league specifically allowed Messin to wear it.Paris Saint-Germain has already signed four excellent players this summer – most recently Gianluigi Donnarumma of Italy, Sergio Ramos of Spain and Georginio Wijnaldum of the Netherlands – for free, as they have all expired on their previous team.
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