Posted on October 22, 2021 at 5:00 am by AM Former PSG coach Laurent Blanc is delighted with the arrival of Lionel Messi in Paris this summer. Unable to extend his contract at FC Barcelona , Lionel Messi has been forced to leave his club forever. An incredible opportunity on which the PSG threw himself in to offer himself the sixfold Ballon d'Or . Passed by the bench of PSG between 2013 and 2016, Laurent Blanc was thus delighted with the arrival of Lionel Messi in Paris. “It's still an incredible chance” “I would say important for the club, yes, because the club fired one of the best players, I was going to say, but he's the best player with Cristiano Ronaldo because they're on another planet. This is a very good thing for the club of course, but it is a very good thing for French football which has been going through difficult times in terms of TV rights with the covid in recent times. European football has been affected a lot, and being able to attract a player like Lionel Messi to Paris, in the French championship, to allow young people to discover Lionel Messi, it is still an incredible opportunity. So just for that, that's a very good thing, “he says in comments reported by beIN SPORTS. Skip back to main navigation