THE BIGGER PICTURE:<\/strong> Inter Miami have won the race to sign Messi with the help of commercial partners Apple and Adidas.\u00a0The Athletic<\/em> has reported that the World Cup winner is set for a share of the revenue from Apple TV+’s MLS Season Pass, while Adidas have offered him a profit-sharing agreement to strengthen their long-term relationship.<\/p>\n AND WHAT’S MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Messi’s father admitted earlier this week that\u00a0his son favoured a return to Barcelona, but their precarious financial situation ultimately made a final deal impossible. Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets, and Jordi Alba have all left the club since the turn of the year, but Barca still need to reduce their wage bill significantly before they will be able able to register any new players.<\/p>\n Al-Hilal, meanwhile, will have to wait until at least 2024 before reigniting their interest in Messi, with GOAL having revealed that the forward asked to delay a potential move\u00a0to the Middle East while assessing his options after leaving PSG.<\/p>\n WHAT HAPPENED?\u00a0Messi will become a free agent when his contract at Paris Saint-Germain officially expires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",1200,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118-300x160.jpg",300,160,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118-768x410.jpg",640,342,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118-1024x546.jpg",640,341,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",1200,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",1200,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",1024,546,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",825,440,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collage-2023-06-07T161314.118.jpg",590,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"nkyeremunews","author_link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/author\/nkyeremunews\/"},"category_info":"Nkyeremu<\/a> Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/GHP_MESSI-MIAMI_16-9-300x169.webp\")
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