Portugal’s Luis Campos, football adviser to Paris Saint-Germain, leaders of the French football league, confirmed on Sunday that the capital club is “currently discussing” a contract extension for Argentine star Lionel Messi, which expires next June, stressing that he has been would be ‘happy’ that the world champion could receive the ‘Continuation’ in Saint-Germain Campos said in an interview with the Telefoot program on the French channel TF1: ‘We are having a discussion. I can’t hide it, I would like him to be with us in this project so that he can continue with us. He continued: “I would be happy if he continued, but at the moment we are talking about trying to reach the desired goal and continue with Leo Messi.”
Messi, aged thirty-five, is set to determine his future weeks after he led the Albicelesta team to a third world title at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Messi, a seven-time winner of the Ballon d’Or for the best player in the world, joined Paris in 2021 for two seasons (in addition to a non-mandatory season) in a transfer that surprised the world of round football from his beloved club Barcelona. ,Spain, where he spent most of his career.
Campos hailed the Flea’s participation in the Paris draft, citing, for example, his performance against Montpellier on Wednesday in the League, where he contributed to a goal from his team’s 3-1 hat-trick. The Portuguese added: “In the first half, I told him: Leo, you have to lead everyone, and indeed, he had an exceptional second half.”
The brilliance of Messi, who scored the winning goal against Toulouse 2-1 on Saturday in the 22nd stage of the league, comes at a moment when Saint-Germain needs him, as he lacks the efforts of his striker Kylian Mbappe due to injury . , and the Brazilian Neymar missed the last two matches due to muscle strain.
Saint Germain faces a difficult test in the coming weeks as next Wednesday he will be the guest of his rival Marseille in the final Cup price to face Monaco in the 23rd stage competition, ahead of a difficult European right at the Parc des Princes against Munich ” Bayern” in the final tournament of the European Champions League on February 14 this year.
And about the injury of Mbappe, the 2018 world champion and 2022 world vice-champion, Campos, who is very close to him, said: “Losing Kylian is, of course, hard. I saw him very sad because of his injury.” “But then I saw how he works in the morning to speed up his recovery as much as possible,” he added. He has a winning personality and is very special. He is truly the best striker in the world.
Saint Germain failed to fill the void left by Mbappé after an international loan deal with Morocco, Chelsea’s Hakim Ziyech did not reach a happy ending as the latter sent transfer paperwork after the winter transfer market closed.
On this occasion, Campos said: “The player was with us, we did everything, but as with all player transfers, we need three teams to work well. Unfortunately, at the last moment it didn’t work out from the other side (Chelsea).”
