Barcelona manager Xavi has indicated that Lionel Messi will make a decision on his future next week, following a possible return to the club.
Messi left Barcelona in 2021 to join PSG, where he stayed for two years, but manager Christophe Galtier said on Thursday that the 35-year-old was leaving the club.
The Argentine World Cup winner has been linked with a move to Inter Miami, who are supposedly willing to sign him as a free agent before loaning him to Barcelona for 18 months.
Now, the Barcelona manager has told Mundo Deportivo that Messi will make his decision in the next seven days and that there is nothing stopping him from returning to LaLiga.
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Xavi said: “He will decide next week and now there are 200 hypotheses. In the end, he will decide his future and here he has the doors open, there is no more debate.
“If it is the coach who has to give the OK to come, he has the OK at 100%.”
When asked about what role Xavi views Messi in, the 43-year-old said: “Well, in many positions he can adapt inside, he can play as a winger, he can play as a midfielder, he can play as a false nine, where he has played all his life.
“In the end, you have to find a natural habitat to enhance all your game, but I do see that it can help us a lot, I think we lack that talent in the last third and Leo always gives it to you.”
Messi wants to make a dramatic comeback to the Catalan powerhouses, but the club is in a financial arms race with LaLiga to see whether a deal is feasible.
The only firm offer Messi has received so far is from the Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal, which is situated in Riyadh and is offering a two-year contract worth close to £2 billion.