An iconic FC Barcelona El Nacional player has revealed that Lionel Messi has decided to leave Inter Miami in 2025.
The Argentine has already decided where he will go next and which club he will retire from after wrapping up what is regarded as the greatest football career in sports history.
The 36-year-old surprised Culers last summer by choosing not to return to work for Barca, his former employer where he had worked for more than 20 years.
Lionel Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain contract was about to expire at the time. Nevertheless, the number 10 chose to travel across the Atlantic to Inter Miami of the Major League Soccer (MLS), where he has been an incredible success since his arrival, rather than wait for the Catalans to sort out their financial situation.
According to Jorge Mas, co-owner of Inter Miami, he inked a deal that will pay him “between $50 and $60 million per year” for the upcoming two seasons. In unrelated news, though, there have been whispers that Messi will earn enormous sums of money from separate agreements with Adidas and Apple. These transactions are anticipated to happen soon.
For better or worse, Messi is free once more in 2025, whether or not this information is accurate.
The captain of their team seems likely to continue his career in Argentina rather than on American soil, even though his current country of residency, the United States, will co-host the World Cup with Mexico and Canada a year later—a competition in which Argentina will participate as the reigning champions.
This is because, according to El Nacional, Messi has already made the decision to play for Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario, his hometown. This would be the best way to honor their devoted followers, as they have always done.
A few months ago, Messi saw them at their Estadio Marcelo Bielsa during a testimonial match for Maxi Rodriguez, and it gave him an idea of the kind of love he would receive from them every week. Messi was able to experience what it would be like to play for Boca Juniors because of this.
It is something that would be replicated at locations around Argentina, where Messi has emerged from behind Diego Maradona and is now welcomed by the masses. Messi’s contribution to Albiceleste’s third World Cup triumph in Qatar 2022 would be repeated if he were to win it again.
After leaving their academy at the age of 13 to pursue a fruitful trial with FC Barcelona, Messi would flawlessly culminate his journey by making his professional debut for Newell’s. This would happen after Messi, then 13 years old, left Newell’s academy to try out for FC Barcelona.
When the renovations to their Camp Nou stadium are eventually finished, Messi is still quite likely to don the Blaugrana in his own memorial game. Regardless of where he ends up heading next, this is the case.
