The situation
Leo Messi told this week in a talk with Sebastián Vignolo that this season at PSG was very different from the last one . To begin with because last year he had to suddenly assimilate a sharp turn in his life with his moving to Paris a few days after the market closed after having been negotiating his renewal with Barcelona. On a sporting level it influenced. Messi could not do a proper preseason and then he had a severe covid that kept him off the pitch for several weeks. All of this weighed him down for the rest of the campaign with 34 games played in all competitions and only eleven goals. This year’s Messi is different . “Last year I never finished starting and this preseason has been fundamental. This year I have a different mentality and I am very excited”, he confessed. And proof of this is that in thirteen games played this year he has already scored eight goals . A year where, in addition to the World Cup, he has the difficult decision of his future. The ‘big decision’ will come after the appointment in Qatar , but not necessarily immediately because the Argentine will not choose a team while PSG is playing the Champions League and it is normal for it to be known well into 2023, as happened with Mbappé this same summer. Right now Messi cannot assess what will happen to his future next year for the simple reason that he does not have an offer on the table. Not even from PSG. The attacker knows that the Parisian club is preparing a draft of the first renewal offer and that it will arrive at the end of the World Cup.
Without contacts with Barcelona
On the other hand, from Barcelona the possibility of seeing Messi as a Barça player again slips in public and in private , but the truth is that right now there are not even contacts between the two parties . The wound from Messi’s departure from Barça is still bleeding and it will be necessary to see if it heals in time to see Leo again at Barça as a player . From Barça they do not close the door to a movement of chips to close that wound that occurred on August 5, 2021 and for this they would ask Messi for an adjustment in salary , something that should not be a problem since in his day he assumed , but there is another condition that would never be assumable by the Argentine: return in a secondary role.