Posted on December 4, 2021 at 3:15 am by AM
After arousing the controversy over the possibility of seeing Lionel Messi play for free at FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta made things clear.
At the microphone of RAC1, Joan Laporta looked back on the departure of Lionel Messi . “I was hoping that at the last minute, Lionel Messi would say he was going to play for free”, assured the president of FC Barcelona . An exit that created controversy especially as a few days later, the Argentine international gave his version of the facts. “The truth is that, as I explained when leaving, I did my best to stay, at no time was I asked to play”, confided the number 30 of PSG in the columns of SPORT. Therefore, Joan Laporta decided to set the record straight.
“I never asked Messi to play for free”
“I want this to be clear. In a radio show, I was told: “If Messi had stayed for free?” For free … I don't know if it would have been possible, but I understand that it could have been. And for a while I was like, well, it could have been. But I never asked Messi to play for free and in that Messi is right because, other than that, he is the best player in the world. We knew he had a big offer and that was nonsense. Anyway, it had to come from him, not from me. I never said that and a controversy was born which is distorted at the source ”, he confides at the microphone of Els Matins on TV3.