Lionel Messi: a clear goal before the end of the year and a great unknown who thinks about the future of his career

In Lionel Messi’s head there is a well-defined focus right now: finishing the preseason at the top to make his best performance at Paris Saint-Germain and thus reach the Qatar 2022 World Cup in November. But while Rosario scored goals in the friendlies the French team played in Japan, different versions began to circulate about his future. In Europe they ensure that, when the time comes, PSG will put on the table the renewal of its bond, which expires in June next year. And they also assure that Xavi, a friend of The flea and current DT of Barcelona, ​​insists on President Joan Laporta to do everything possible to repatriate him. What will be the fate of Leo at the end of the season?

The rumors about the best in the world never stop. And they’re not exactly fed by it. The transcended often dissipate as soon as they arise due to lack of sustenance. And other times they become information. The truth is, as he could find out ClarioneMessi or its environment For now, no one has approached him with a concrete proposal for 2023. Nor does he expect them to do so in these days.

Your neurons are functioning today. In preparing as much as he is doing to start an intense sporting year and perhaps the most special of his career as he will have a World Cup in the middle, something atypical. All the more so if that World Cup can become the last for him.

Three friendlies played by PSG coach Christophe Galtier in Asia and Lionel scored two goals: one in the 6-2 against Gamba Osaka and another in the 2-1 against Kawasaki. In addition, the Parisians also beat Urawa 3-0 (Messi went to the bench in that game and then replaced Mauro Icardi). And this Sunday, with the ’30’ as a starter, he will face his first final: the French Super Cup against Nantes in Tel Aviv.

From Paris to Barcelona

If today he was asked to define what he will do in the middle of next year, he would certainly not give a concrete answer. The only thing confirmed by these hours is that he will fulfill his contract with Paris. And then? Perhaps he too is not yet clear. That PSG will try to hold him back is a rumor that will undoubtedly become a confirmation sooner or later.

Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Qatar boss of the French club, is convinced that the best version of Messi is on the way in recent months. And he will want to give it continuity, mainly for sporting reasons, but also for economic reasons because the arrival of the Argentine crack triggered marketing revenue (sale of T-shirts, sponsors, etc.).

In the Paris entity they think the hardest thing for Leo has already happened: adapting to change. It was undoubtedly not easy for him to leave the city where he lived since before adolescence and where he started a family. It was a personally moving time. Added to this was that the coronavirus attacked him in the Argentine summer while he was on vacation and affected him a lot.

But all of this is now behind us. They say that Messi, in fact, has started to enjoy the French capital and is already going out to eat and go for walks with his wife and three children.. It is already settled and those who know it every day see it at ease near the Eiffel Tower.

However, Al-Khelaifi may have a competitor. “I believe, hope and hope that the Messi chapter is not yet finished at Barsa. I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that this chapter, which is still open, which has not been closed, has a moment in which he can do as he should have done. May it have a much more splendid ending than it was. As president of Barsa and also on a personal level, I think I am indebted to him. “Joan Laporta, Barcelona president, said this week.

Those sayings disclosed in an interview with ESPN have sparked a revolution in Catalonia, which lacks those they consider a prodigal son, who will never return to what is his home. And they intend it to be soon, next season. Xavi has armed his Barcelona and Rosario is the missing piece to finish going for everything, again. And Laporta already knows.

The third in discord

Of course, there is also a third possibility that has never been completely excluded from Lionel Andrés’ milieu: the MLS of the United States. It’s a viable option, even if if Messi still feels at the top of his performance by reaching his 36, it would at least be odd for him to agree to go to a far less competitive championship than the top five in Europe.

Furthermore, first of all that will be the World Cup. And in the end, first Rosario will make a decision regarding his continuity with the national team. Already in March he had warned that he will have to rethink some things. That will. It will be necessary to see how it will affect their performance and that of the Scaloneta in Qatar in his thoughts. Step by step.

For now Lionel Messi is focused on PSG, on winning more titles to increase his legend and on the final preparatory matches with Argentina which will be in September. After, what is the importance of the after …