Is Lionel Messi Leaving PSG?

By Rahul Gupta On May 11, 2023

Many football fans want to know if Lionel Messi is leaving PSG. Find out the truth about his future at Paris Saint-Germain FC and if he is going back to Barcelona.

Who is Lionel Messi?

Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. His full name is Lionel Andrés Messi. The Argentine forward Messi is thought to be one of the best football players ever.

He is the captain of the Argentina national team and plays for the Paris Saint-Germain team in Ligue 1. Messi has won a record six European Golden Shoes and seven Ballon d’Or awards. In 2020, he will be on the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.

Messi moved from Argentina to Spain when he was 13 to join Barcelona. He played his first game for the club in October 2004, when he was 17 years old. In the next three years, he became an important part of the team.

In 2008-09, he helped Barcelona win the first treble in Spanish football, and at the age of 22, he won his first Ballon d’Or. Messi then became the first player to win the Ballon d’Or four times in a row.

During the 2011-12 season, he set records for most goals scored in a single season in La Liga and European competitions. He also became Barcelona’s all-time top scorer.

Even though Messi lost the Ballon d’Or to Cristiano Ronaldo the next two years, he got back on track in the 2014-15 season. He became La Liga’s all-time top scorer and led Barcelona to a second treble, which earned him his fifth Ballon d’Or in 2015.

Messi became captain of Barcelona in 2018, and in 2019, he won a record-setting sixth Ballon d’Or. In August of 2021, when his deal was up, he signed with Paris Saint-Germain.

Messi has been a brand spokesman for Adidas, a big company that makes sportswear. From 2009 to 2014, France Football said he was the best-paid player in the world for five out of six years. In 2019 and 2022, Forbes said he was the best-paid athlete in the world.

In 2011, 2012, and 2023, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most important people in the world.

In February 2020, he made history by becoming the first player and team-sport athlete to win the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award. Later that year, he became only the second football player and the second team-sport star to make more than $1 billion in their careers.

Before he left in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 34 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles, and three UEFA Champions Leagues. Messi was a big reason why Argentina won the Copa América in 2021 and the World Cup in 2022.

He holds several records, such as most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).

Messi has made more than 800 goals in his career, for both his club and his country. He also has the most goals (672) for a single club.

Is Lionel Messi Leaving PSG?

The father of the Argentine football star who led his team to a thrilling win at the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup in December has told officials at Paris Saint-Germain that his son will be leaving the club at the end of his second season.

Messi, who is considered by many to be one of the best football players of all time, will have a lot of choices after he leaves PSG.

Inter Miami, an MLS team owned by David Beckham, Al Hilal, a club in the Saudi League, and FC Barcelona, the La Liga club where Messi spent more than two decades and became a superstar after joining Barcelona’s school as a teenager, have all been mentioned as possible destinations.

Even though Messi is said to want to stay in Europe, Al Hilal, a team in the Saudi League, has offered him a contract worth more than 400 million Euros per season. If he agreed, he would have to play against Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been his foe for a long time.

Messi, on the other hand, was recently banned for two weeks by PSG because he took an “unauthorized” trip to Saudi Arabia.

Messi had most of his career success with Barcelona, but he couldn’t do the same with Argentina. But since he went to PSG in 2021 because Barcelona could no longer pay his salary, this is no longer true.

Even though Neymar and Mbappé were also on the team, the team lost in the Round of 16 of the Champions League in both 2022 and 2023.

Messi, on the other hand, led Argentina to win at the 2021 Copa America and the 2022 World Cup. At the 2022 World Cup, he was named the tournament’s best player and was given the Golden Ball.

Messi’s image among Parisian fans didn’t get better when Argentina beat France and their best player, Mbappé, in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final.

Messi was booed by the crowd at a recent home game at Parc des Princes, and when the news came out that he was leaving, a group of PSG fans chanted anti-Messi slogans outside the team’s offices.

Fans have chanted Messi’s name at games in Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium, where he played for over 20 years and became a legend. Messi’s former teammate and current Barcelona boss, Xavi Hernandez, has said that Messi’s “door will always be open” to return to the club.