Le Bourget (France): Six Ballon d’Or Winner Lionel Messi received a welcome of a hero after flying to France on Tuesday to join Paris Saint Germain (PSG) after his surprise departure from Barcelona.
The agreement to sign 34-year-old Argentina is a big coup for rich PSG, which will add to one of the best football players of all time to the tough frontline which includes Neymar and young French Mbappe Brazil.
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Messi and his father Jorge arrived at Barcelona airport after French newspaper L’Equipe said the Argentine midfielder had reached an agreement to join PSG on the Aweedaring A T-shirt who read “this Paris,” Messi beamed and waved on a number of fans who had them came To greet him at Le Bourget airport in the outskirts of the French capital after the flight from Barcelona.
Santing “Messi, Messi, Messi,” fans cheered and released firecrackers.
“This will be angry.
After all, it is a legend that arrives,” said Florent Chauveau, a PSG fan who has been back and forth to the airport every day since week hopes that seeing Messi arrived.
(AFP photo) Messi did not provide a detail of the agreement, which was reached a few days after Barcelona said it was unable to make the midfielder because of the Spanish La Liga game rules.
But his father, spoke to reporters at Barcelona Airport, which was confirmed by the French newspaper L’Equipe and Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo that Messi had reached an agreement with PSG, which was owned by Qatar Sports Investment.
L’Equipe said the deal would be for two years.
He also said Messi would have a medical test on Tuesday, and that a press conference to mark his arrival the possibility on Wednesday.
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In the background, music is optimistic can be heard and the words “new diamond in Paris” and “Mercato updates” appear.
Video, visible on Twitter, did not show Messi but described a picture of six d’or balloons – the annual award given to players considered the best in the world – by the Eiffel Tower.
Many Barcelona fans were confused at the end of Messi’s sparkling trophy career at the club he was attending as a school child.
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But the arrival of the printer of all time of Barcelona with 682 goals will improve the Champions League for the first time.
Messi won four Champions League titles while in Barcelona, ​​and 10 La Liga titles.
PSG Ambitionsi is the newest arrival of the latest names at PSG on a free transfer this summer after the coach of Mauricio Pochettino to take Spain defender Sergio Ramos after he left Real Madrid.
Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum also joined after switching his contract with Liverpool.
Euro 2020 Italy winnning goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma also joined after his contract with AC Milan ran out, while Moroccan Fullback Achraf Judge joined Inter Milan to report 60 million euros ($ 70 million).
Messi’s arrival, whose last contract with Barcelona was worth a total of 555 million euros and was reported as the most profitable in world sports, was also set to provoke a new debate about UEFA’s financial fair game rules.
The first rule was first introduced in 2009 to limit some of the worst excesses of the game but has been criticized by some leading figures because it is not effective.
Messi’s arrival, which has 245 million followers on Instagram and the most decorated Barcelona player, also welcomed the news for Ligue 1 France, involved in the crisis of the TV rights.