Posted on November 19, 2021 at 3:00 a.m. by G.d.S.S. Close to the president of FC Barcelona Joan Laporta, of whom he was a great support during his campaign, José Elias did not fail to tackle Lionel Messi and even regrets that he did not join the PSG a year earlier. Four years after having managed to dislodge Neymar from FC Barcelona for a record transfer of 222M €, the PSG achieved another legendary coup last summer with the arrival of Lionel Messi , who had reached the end of his contract with Barça . A departure that aroused great regret among most Catalan socios, but in an interview with the Soltana, support close to Joan Laporta sharply tackled Messi . “Messi was too old for Barça. What I said was that, as Culé, as José Elías, if we had let Messi go a year earlier, we would have made money. If we had taken 100 million euros, I would have been happy with that. Messi's end was in sight; if it wasn't last year it was this year, and making Barca a winning team means making a post-Messi project. A decision had to be made at some point, ”said the man who supported President Laporta during his campaign for FC Barcelona . This is clear … 
“Messi was too old for Barça”
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