Lionel Messi will play on Sunday, for the first time in the career, against the former team, A new feeling in Argentina’s life. And it will not just be a reunion. It will be against the team where he had the worst time in the career and where he had the worst goal-by-game ratio (32 in 75), Not even a goal of two games in two games, something unusual in the career.
Leo (nor his family) was happy in Paris, where they never adapted. “It was – he admitted recently – two years I didn’t enjoy, I was not happy a day. They weren’t good for me. I was not happy with any day, with the training, with the games. It was very difficult for me to adapt, ”he said.
“From the beginning it was very fun to reception. But then people started to treat me differently, part of the public in Paris. There was a break with a lot of fans, obviously it wasn’t my intention, It happened that way, as before with Mbappe and Neymar too. I know that’s their way to play, “he said.
It was Two periods (21-22 and 22-23) on, curious, best season of their life in the national team. With Argentina, as a Paris player, he was Copa America champion (summer 2021), the World Cup (2022) and Finalissima champion (2022).
But With PSG he could only reach three titles (Two divisions and one superb cup). International PSG fell on both seasons in round 16 (against Real Madrid and Bayern)
In May 2023 came the darkest episode. PSG lost at Lorient and Leo’s home, on a journey he had already planned and had postponed some time ago, went to Saudi Arabia for advertising obligations. PSG saw his absence and indirectly argued and punished him financially and without training … knowing that the training change had been (almost) with Leo on the plane. In this background was the renewal of the LM contract, which expired a month later. Qatar (through Luis Campos) wanted to renew Argentine for two years yes or yes and now … but Leo (through his father Jorge) asked them to know more information on the new project 23-24. Leo didn’t trust them. In that disconnection and after that rejection, came, coincidentally (or not so much), the sanction, something unprecedented because Messi has never missed, without permission, the practice of his team. Nevertheless, Leo apologized to a video on his social networks. This was the saddest factor of two sad years.
And so, between sports dissatisfaction and general distress, his time ended with PSG. It was Paris Life that looked good (a great team with Neymar, Sergio Ramos, Mbappe …), but Ultras ended up by making it ugly with a whistle in the line and some other ugly gesture. So it was best that it ended as it did, since Messi did not renew her contract. Now the Messi family is happy in Miami.
The two relationships, which will continue this Sunday in the 16th round, has continued. Last Tuesday, with Leo who turned 38, a birthday party came from PSG: “Happy birthday Leo! See you on Sunday ”.
The Paris Club also had a great gesture through his “boss”.Nasser Al Khelaifi recently said this, after winning the Champions League with Luis Enrique: “I’m very proud of the teamBut I also want to thank all the players honestly, the first we signed … Javier Pastore was in our project, former skipper Thiago Silva, Zlatan, Cavani, Thiago Motta … Everyone, honestly, Di Maria, everyone. And I will say something very important, even Neymar, Messi, Kylian …To thank them for what they also did for the company, I will never forget it. They were part of the success. It was very important to have the past to get today ”.