Hypothesis about the way forward for Lionel Messi and a possible return to Barcelona intensified over the previous week, following the ahead’s surprising go to to Camp Nou throughout his journey to Spain to coach with Argentina. Now a candidate for membership president has addressed the topic.
“We have now to embrace Leo Messi and do every little thing doable in order that, as quickly as we will, Messi has the position at Barca that he needs to have,” Victor Font stated throughout a current interview with Mundo Deportivo.
With no official date set but for Barcelona’s elections—although there’s hypothesis they might happen in March 2026—Font has emerged as one of many potential candidates for membership president. He already has expertise on this area, having run towards Joan Laporta within the 2021 elections, the place he misplaced by a large margin.
“Would I like a ‘final dance’? As a cule, it provides me goosebumps, however that depends upon him,” Font defined when requested a couple of doable return of Messi as a participant. He additionally made it clear that the Argentine ahead is a precedence in his sporting undertaking: “I don’t suppose Messi ought to be used, however he must know that the very first thing I’ll do once I win the election is choose up the cellphone and name him.”
Messi left Barcelona in 2021.
Lastly, Victor Font spoke in regards to the tributes Messi may obtain from Barcelona sooner or later. “Giving him a statue falls method too quick,” he stated, referring to Joan Laporta’s current announcement about plans to honor the Argentine ahead.
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What has Messi stated a couple of potential return to Barcelona?
Within the instances Lionel Messi has spoken about his departure from Barcelona, he has at all times emphasised that the way in which occasions unfolded—which led to his contract not being renewed and his pressured exit to Paris Saint-Germain—was a shock to him. Nevertheless, he has hardly ever spoken a couple of doable return.
“Hopefully sooner or later I can come again, and never solely to say goodbye as a participant, which I used to be by no means capable of do,” Messi wrote just a few days in the past on his official Instagram account after visiting Camp Nou. The phrase is ambiguous, as “saying goodbye as a participant” may imply having a second stint on the membership earlier than retiring, or just taking part in a farewell match there.
Nevertheless, the contract extension with Inter Miami via December 2028 makes it tough to think about room for a return to Barcelona as an lively participant, contemplating that by then the Argentine ahead might be 41 years outdated. The one different, in that case, can be a quick return throughout Main League Soccer’s offseason, as different stars like David Beckham and Thierry Henry have accomplished up to now.
