{"id":74843,"date":"2023-06-09T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/09\/messi-explains-miami-move\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:53:18","slug":"messi-explains-miami-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/09\/messi-explains-miami-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Explains Miami Move &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi said he did not want to relive his traumatic departure from Barcelona two years ago after revealing Wednesday that he will join MLS side Inter Miami CF over the Catalan club.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, 35, left Barca in August 2021 as a free agent, signing for Paris Saint-Germain because they could not afford to register his contract within their LaLiga-imposed spending limit.<\/p>\n<p>Barca were keen to bring the seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner back this summer, with coach Xavi Hernandez confirming their interest. However, they were once again in a similar position, unable to offer guarantees that the league will allow them to register new signings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to come back,\u201d Messi told Diario Sport after announcing his move to Miami. \u201cBut, on the other hand, after having lived through what I lived through, after the exit I had, I didn\u2019t want to go through the same situation again and have to wait to see what was going to happen. I didn\u2019t want to leave my future in the hands of others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make my own decision for myself and my family. Even though I heard [in the media] that the league had accepted everything and that everything was OK for me to come back, there were still a lot of other things missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard that they had to sell players or lower the salaries of players and I didn\u2019t want to go through that, nor be responsible or have anything to do with all that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I had to leave, they also said that LaLiga had accepted everything, but in the end it couldn\u2019t be done. I was afraid that the same thing would happen again and I would have to rush [a decision] like I did then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messi had agreed to a contract extension in 2021, but when it emerged one week before the season that Barca could not afford to register the deal with LaLiga, he had to quickly look for a solution away from the club where he had spent 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up joining PSG, where he won back-to-back Ligue 1 titles, but aside from winning the World Cup with Argentina, he said the past two years had been tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi \u00a0 Lionel Messi said he did not want to relive his traumatic departure from Barcelona two years ago after revealing Wednesday that he will join MLS side Inter Miami CF over the Catalan club. Messi, 35, left Barca in August 2021 as a free agent, signing for Paris Saint-Germain because they could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Messi Explains Miami Move - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/09\/messi-explains-miami-move\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Messi Explains Miami Move - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lionel Messi \u00a0 Lionel Messi said he did not want to relive his traumatic departure from Barcelona two years ago after revealing Wednesday that he will join MLS side Inter Miami CF over the Catalan club. 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