Lionel Messi might have snubbed Barcelona in favour of a move to Inter Miami in MLS this summer, but Barca president Joan Laporta has suggested the Argentine could play for the club on a one-off basis in the future.<\/p>\n
While\u00a0Messi’s contract at\u00a0Inter Miami\u00a0will reportedly run until the summer of 2025, with the option of an extra year, Laporta has suggested there is still potential for him to run out at Camp Nou in the future.<\/p>\n
Indeed,\u00a0Barcelona are set to play at the Llu\u00eds Company’s Stadium\u00a0in Montju\u00efc next season as Camp Nou undergoes major renovation work. Returning to a reduced crowd for the 2024\/25 season, Camp Nou is expected to be fully completed during the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n
Laporta has suggested, therefore, that a tribute game for Messi could also signal the re-opening of Camp Nou.<\/p>\n
\u201cBarca will always be his home,” Laporta told\u00a0TV3<\/em>\u00a0when asked when Messi could return to Spain.<\/p>\n “I met with them [Messi’s representatives] to make a tribute. The opening day of the Spotify Camp Nou would be an excellent date.\u201d<\/p>\n With his contract expiring at PSG, Messi held several negotiations with his former side over a potential\u00a0“dream” return\u00a0to Catalonia. However, after\u00a0revealing that he grew unconvinced\u00a0Barcelona would have the requisite funds to register him, the 36-year-old instead opted for America.<\/p>\n Barcelona initially released a\u00a0statement determined by many as “disrespectful”, though the club’s president Joan Laporta has since retracted that. He also added during his conversation with\u00a0TV3\u00a0<\/em>that he wished the Argentine all the best playing in MLS.<\/p>\n \u201cMessi wanted to return to Barca,” Laporta said. “He had a very tough period in\u00a0Paris. His father told me he didn\u2019t want to have this pressure. We, the Cules, respect him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lionel Messi might have snubbed Barcelona in favour of a move to Inter Miami in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",1200,650,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609-768x416.jpg",640,347,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609-1024x555.jpg",640,347,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",1200,650,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",1200,650,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",1024,555,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",825,447,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg",590,320,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":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BeFunky-collag-2023-06-30T224540.609.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689"}],"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=25689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}