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Laporta’s comments travel aft Messi made a astonishment sojourn to the Nou Camp and expressed his tendency to instrumentality ‘one day’.
Published On 12 Nov 2025
The prospects of Lionel Messi’s instrumentality to Barcelona arsenic a subordinate are “unrealistic”, says the Spanish club’s president Joan Laporta.
Laporta’s comments, connected Wednesday, came 3 days aft the Argentinian, 1 of Barcelona’s all-time greats, returned to the Catalan nine connected an unannounced sojourn and expressed his tendency to “return 1 day”.
The 38-year-old made a astonishment quality astatine Barca’s Camp Nou stadium connected Sunday nighttime and said helium hoped “one time I tin return, and not conscionable to accidental goodbye arsenic a player, arsenic I ne'er got to do”.
Eight-time Ballon d’Or victor Messi, Barca’s grounds goalscorer (672 goals) and quality shaper (778 caps), near for Paris Saint-Germain successful 2021 aft spending 21 years of his illustrious career.
Having won 10 LaLiga titles, 4 Champions League crowns and 3 Club World Cups with Barca, Messi present plays for Inter Miami.
His daze exit came owed to the club’s precarious fiscal presumption meant they could not spend to support him.
Messi shed tears astatine his last property league astatine the nine helium joined astatine 13 years of property and wherever helium began his nonrecreational career.
“Out of the utmost respect for Messi, the professionals astatine the club, Barca, and the Barca nine members, I judge that now, for maine to marque speculation that is unrealistic, nor bash I deliberation is fair, well, I judge that is not appropriate,” Laporta told Catalunya Radio.
The president, who was successful complaint astatine the clip of Messi’s departure, said helium did not regret what happened due to the fact that “Barca is supra everything”.
Barca reopened the Camp Nou connected Friday, 895 days aft its closure, unveiling a revamped stadium by staging an unfastened grooming league attended by 21,795 fans.
“Last night, I returned to a spot that I miss with each my heart. A spot wherever I was immensely happy, wherever you made maine consciousness a 1000 times similar the happiest idiosyncratic successful the world,” the eight-times Ballon d’Or victor wrote connected Instagram connected Monday.
“I anticipation that 1 time I tin return, and not conscionable to accidental goodbye arsenic a player, arsenic I ne'er got to do.”
Messi extended his declaration with Inter Miami successful October, and has antecedently said that the Major League Soccer nine would apt beryllium his last.
“You’re ever invited astatine your home, Leo,” Barca posted connected X.
You're ever invited astatine your home, Leo. 💙❤️ pic.twitter.com/LUgD5D6Wdb
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) November 10, 2025
Laporta confirmed helium would emotion to clasp a lucifer successful homage to Messi’s vocation astatine the rebuilt Camp Nou, erstwhile it is afloat open.
“Things didn’t extremity the mode we would person liked… if, successful immoderate way, this tribute tin marque up for what wasn’t done, I deliberation it would beryllium a bully thing,” explained Laporta.
“It would beryllium close that helium has the champion tribute [match] successful the world, and it would beryllium fantastic to person it here, successful beforehand of 105,000 fans,” helium continued.
The president said Inter Miami guardant Messi’s astonishment sojourn to the stadium connected Sunday was a “spontaneous” show of his emotion for the club.
Messi is presently successful Spain with the Argentina nationalist team, wherever they are grooming earlier a affable against Angola.
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