Lionel Messi to join Inter Miami.

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Before Interview


Messi: "I will not return to Barcelona, I will join Inter Miami."

Messi: "I made the decision to go to Miami. I still haven't closed it 100% and there are some things missing, but well, we decided to continue the journey there."

Messi: "Busquets and Alba will join Inter Miami with me? That's another of the things they said, that we had it all sorted out. Everyone is looking out for their own future. I was obviously keeping an eye on them, but we never agreed to go anywhere together."

Messi: "The truth is that I had offers from another European team, but I didn't even evaluate it because in Europe my idea was only to go to Barcelona."

Messi: "Obviously with the same responsibility and the same desire to want to win and to always do things well. But with more peace of mind."

Messi: "After winning the World Cup and not being able to go to Barça, I had to go to the American league to experience football in a different way and enjoy the day to day."

Messi: "I feel good, calm, having finished the season. It was an atypical year because we played the World Cup in the middle. It made everything different. Now I'm thinking about the games with the national team and the holidays."


Messi: "The truth is that the first year at PSG was very difficult, as I said on some occasions, for different reasons. The second year, the first six months I felt very, very good, very comfortable in the club, in the city, with my family."

Messi: "I think it conditioned the season a lot. I had hoped to finish in a different way, but well, it was a difficult two years for me in general."


Messi: "In the middle of the season there was the World Cup and I think the World Cup affected all the teams in general, it affected the season a little bit, with such an important competition in the middle for the first time."


Messi: "Did I miss Barça when I was at PSG? Yes, obviously I did. I was just saying, the truth is that the first year here was very difficult for me, after the departure, how it was and everything."


Messi: "When I was at PSG, obviously I followed Barça, I watched the games and I always missed the memories and being able to be there..."


Messi: "Barça winning La Liga this season? Yes, I was excited, I followed it all year and I wanted Barça to win like every Barcelona fan."


Messi: "I talk to Xavi a lot, also about some games, after the game, about situations... The truth is that we've been talking a lot since became a coach. And I followed him, obviously."


Messi: "I really wanted to return to Barça but after having lived through what I went through and the departure I had, I didn't want to be in the same situation again... Waiting to see what was going to happen and leaving my future in someone else's hands."


Messi: "I wanted to make my own decision, thinking about myself, my family. Although I heard that La Liga had accepted everything and that everything was fine for me to return, there were still a lot of other things that needed to happen."


Messi: "I heard that Barça had to sell players or lower the salaries of players and the truth is that I didn't want to go through that, or be in charge of getting anything to do with all that."


Messi: "I was already blamed for a lot of things that weren't true in my career at Barcelona and I was a bit tired of it, I didn't want to go through all that... What were they going to say about me if they had to sell players or things like that for my signing."


Messi: "The time I had to leave, in 2021, La Liga had also agreed to register me and in the end it was not possible. Well, I was afraid that the same thing would happen again."


Messi: "When I left in 2021, I had to come to Paris to stay in a hotel for a long time with my family, with my children going to school and still being in the hotel... I didn't want my future in the air again."


Messi: "I wanted to make my own decision and that's why my return to Barça didn't happen. Even though I would have loved to, it didn't happen."


Messi: "I'm also in a moment where I want to get out of the spotlight a bit, to think more about my family. As I was saying just now, I spent two years with my family in such a bad way that I didn't enjoy it at Paris."


Messi: "I had that month which was spectacular for me because I won the World Cup, but apart from that it was a difficult period for me. Iwant to get back to enjoying myself, enjoying my family, my children, the day to day..."


Messi: "I wanted to make my own decision and not have to wait again for the same thing to happen. As I said, after having achieved everything, thanks to God, and having finally won the World Cup, which I wanted so much, I wanted to look for something else and for peace of mind."


Messi: "My family was very excited about everything we heard about returning to Barça, but at the same time we weren't that excited because the reality was that we still didn't know what would happen, but obviously we were very keen to return."

Messi: "It was hard for them at first but now they are more than adapted here in Paris. They have their friends at school and it hurts them to leave all that. They are grown up now. Thiago especially understands the situation and is happy about what is to come."


Messi: "We never wanted to leave Barcelona, it was very difficult, but they also support me and it is a decision taken as a family, not just mine. They are also happy about the new change, although they are also sad to leave."



Messi: "Barça saying that everything depended on me? I listened to everything that was said. La Liga had given the OK but it's not real that the decision is mine because there are many things missing and I don't want to go through what I've already been through."


Messi: "I decided to take the decision earlier to get it over with and to be calm and think about the holidays and my future, already planning what I know is going to be possible."

Messi: "Pressured by what the media was saying in Barcelona? No, because so many things were coming out. I don't know where they came from, but there were a lot of leaks and news."

Messi: "There were even journalists who put me everywhere. I was confirmed in Arabia, in Barcelona they took it for granted and the next day they changed their version. There was a lot of that, so I tried to think about what I knew and felt and deal with that."


Messi: "It was very hard. One of the reasons I just explained is not to go through all that again. It was a very bad time."


Messi: "In 2021, before my departure, we arrived with the illusion of every year, of starting training again and the kids with their schools and their routines..."

Messi: "In 2021, When everything was ready to sign, overnight, it couldn't be done and they told me that it wasn't possible and I had to leave the club. I had to start running and looking for a team, make a decision in a hurry and go through everything we went through..."


Messi: "With president Laporta I spoke very little, once or twice at the most. I do have a lot of communication with Xavi."


Messi: "Did the two years at PSG affect my decision? A bit yes, because there were two years in which I wasn't happy, I didn't enjoy myself, and that affected my family life, I missed a lot of my children's life at school."

Messi: "In Barcelona I went to look for my children, in Paris I did it much less, I shared fewer activities with them. That was also the reason for my decision, to reconnect with my family, with my children, and to enjoy the day to day."

Messi: "I was lucky enough to achieve everything in football and now it goes a little beyond the sporting aspect, which also interests me a lot, but much, much more the family aspect."


Messi: "I'd have loved a farewell like Iniesta, Busquets, Jordi Alba, Xavi... This is why I was very happy to hear the chants with my name by Barça fans at the Spotify Camp Nou."