Make no mistake about it. When Lionel Messi admits this Sunday, in mondiovision in the auditorium of the Camp Nou, that his departure from FC Barcelona is “the most difficult moment of his career”, it is anything but pipe. You only have to see how the Argentine burst into tears in front of the audience before the start of his press conference to realize it.
And if it was theater, let’s give him the Palme d’Or: the good man went so far as to wipe his tears in his mask in spite of all common sense before finally getting his hands on a handkerchief. If this drama was planned, we dare to hope that he would have managed to have two or three on him.
“My blood froze”
In short. Leo Messi at Barça, so it’s well over. He himself still has a little trouble realizing it. “I’m not ready for that,” said the Argentinian, who did not fail to recall in the preamble that if he wanted to leave last year, this year more than ever, he was determined to return to Barça. . Finally not to the point of sacrificing part of his pharaonic salary. Missing more than that. Note also that Messi and his clan thought his extension almost acted before the final retraction of the Blaugranas. With, this time, a little comedy in the text.
“My blood froze, because it was sad and difficult. Now I’m trying to digest the news. […]. We thought that everything was good, that the contract was going to pass. I had lunch with the president. We discussed, and after that I was convinced that I could continue here, that my contract would not be a problem. “
Contacts with PSG, but nothing is done
Stingy in details on the founding act of his last-minute exit from Barça, Messi is more generous in thanks for this club which welcomed him when he was only 13 years old, at a time when we were still wondered if his growing pains wouldn’t end up robbing football of what would later prove to be one of its greatest, if not its greatest talent. “I would like to thank everyone here. So many great things have happened in this club, not so great. I gave everything for this club, from the first to the very last day. I am so grateful for everyone here at the club. I never imagined saying goodbye to them like that. “
Now let’s move on. If the six-fold Ballon d’Or tries to sell us a real-false suspense and swears that the famous photo with the Parisian players in Ibiza was “a coincidence” – conceding all the same – that “they [lui] jokingly asked to join Paris Saint-Germain ”- the recent echoes leave little room for doubt as to his arrival at Paname. “It is one possibility among others. I’ve had a lot of calls. As I speak to you, nothing is certain. It will take a lot more to convince us, Leo. Even if basically, it would not be the first time that PSG would lose big after seeing themselves victorious. Messi knows something about it.