Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski stated he would love Lionel Messi to return to the Catalan membership from Paris Saint-Germain this summer time, talking at a charity occasion on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Argentine World Cup winner left Barca in 2021 when the membership couldn’t afford to resume his contract and his PSG deal expires in June.
Amid whistles from PSG supporters who see Messi as a logo of the membership’s errors in chasing star signings as an alternative of constructing a aggressive workforce, Barcelona are brazenly courting the ahead.
“Messi belongs to Barca and if he returns it would be something incredible,” stated Lewandowski.
“We know that his place is here, in Barcelona. I don’t know what will happen, but I hope that next season we can play together.”
Messi is the membership’s all-time high goalscorer and plenty of take into account him the most effective participant within the historical past of soccer.
Barcelona followers have chanted Messi’s title within the tenth minute — representing his former Barca shirt quantity — of their final two matches, together with a 0-0 draw in opposition to Girona on Monday in La Liga.
Lewandowski, high scorer in La Liga, couldn’t discover the online for the league leaders and stated he had been carrying an harm.
“I took a blow from (Real Madrid defender Eder) Militao in the game against Madrid and I could not walk,” stated Lewandowski, referring to Barcelona’s 4-0 thrashing by Los Blancos within the Copa del Rey final week.
“On the pitch I have to play better but that knock from Militao left my body in a bad way.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
