From “Leo prefers to go back” to “now it’s difficult”, the 24 hours where Messi revived the hopes of Barcelona

“Who says it will be difficult,” Laporta challenges a fan who is wary of Lionel Messi’s return. It is that today Barcelona is playing the most important game of the season and yesterday they had a good first half at the house of their president Joan Laporta.

For about 35 minutes, the top leader of the Blaugrana team met with Jorge Messi, Leo’s father, to start discussing the return of the Argentine after he left in 2021.

The first meeting has basically been for Laporta to ask Leo for patience for the offer that they are going to give him, since the League is still pending the acceptance of the feasibility plan of the Catalan team. Meanwhile, Jorge hoped to see first-hand the real situation of the club to have the guarantees that what was agreed would be fulfilled.

“Leo prefers to return to Barça and I would love for him to come back,” Jorge Messi assured upon leaving the meeting with Laporta. With this, both sides are willing and everything happens for Barza to find the guarantees.

Despite this, it is known that Jorge Messi has also met with emissaries from David Beckham’s Inter Miami, and the proposal from Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal is latent. But the affection that Leo has for the club that formed him is for now tilting the balance of waiting for Barza.

Although the concern of the Blaugrana world returned on the Catalan night, since, after having dinner in a central restaurant, the journalist Carlos Monfort from Jijantes FC, approached Jorge Messi and the signs were not good. “The situation is difficult now. I see it as quite complicated since they depend on many things,” Messi’s father told the aforementioned journalist. “It’s not the economics, because he would play for free,” he added.

And everything depends on the League approving the Barça Viability Plan, which, according to the Spanish press, would already have the go-ahead but all that is needed is to make it official.

THE MILLIONS THAT BARZA WORKS

Today the League can approve the Viability Plan for the Catalan team, and this means that Barça has been able to present a program in which it guarantees that it will not have losses in the next two seasons.

And within the plan is the reduction of the wage bill, which with the departures of Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, and previously Piqué, has been significantly reduced by around 40 million euros less.

In addition, sales of some players such as Abde and Ansu Fati are being considered. Without having to pay those salaries, they also save another million, in addition to generating income of about 40 million.

In addition, about 15 million are ‘saved’ by closing Barza TV and the departures of three players from the basketball team are also being considered, including captain Nikola Mirotic, with which they hope to complete another 15 million in their reduction.

Meanwhile, according to the newspaper “AS”, the Spanish team is about to receive about 30 million euros for its box thanks to the sponsorship of Philips, which would appear as a sponsor on the sleeve of the Blaugrana shirt.

Barça’s situation not only involves reducing its salary mass by 200 million euros, but also respecting the criteria of ‘Financial Fair Play’, UEFA measures that force clubs to spend only 5 million more on transfers than what who enter.

Barcelona is excited, Al Hilal has the millionaire contract in hand and Inter Miami has also made its voice heard. Messi’s situation must be defined soon.

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