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.
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Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has stated he would love Lionel Messi to return to the Catalan membership from Paris Saint-Germain this summer season.
“Messi belongs to Barca and if he returns it would be something incredible,” stated Lewandowski on Tuesday.
“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.”
Lewandowski, prime scorer in Spain, couldn’t discover the online for the league leaders in opposition to Girona and, talking at a charity occasion, 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,” added 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.”
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Courting Messi
Amid whistles from PSG supporters who see Messi as an emblem of the membership’s errors in chasing star signings as an alternative of constructing a aggressive workforce, Barcelona are overtly courting the ahead.
Barcelona followers have chanted Messi’s identify 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.
The playmaker scored a document 672 objectives in 778 matches for Barcelona, profitable 35 trophies, after becoming a member of the membership at 13-years-old and creating at their feted La Masia youth academy.
“Leo generates excitement, they have chanted his name in two games now, we’ll see what happens,” stated Barca coach Xavi Hernandez after the derby conflict.
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