{"id":617861,"date":"2022-09-14T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617861"},"modified":"2022-09-14T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:42:53","slug":"fabrizio-romano-issues-lionel-messi-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/14\/fabrizio-romano-issues-lionel-messi-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano Issues Update on Future of Ballon d\u2019Or Winner as Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona Show Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1569610208229433346\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has issued an update on the future of Lionel Messi as his initial Paris Saint-Germain contract is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.psg.fr\/teams\/first-team\/content\/cp-lionel-messi-psg-paris-saint-germain-mercato\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set to end in the summer of 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romano&#8217;s report states that &#8220;Leo Messi will not make any decision on his future in the next weeks or months&#8221;. The Argentine is currently focused on his parent club and the impending world cup, which could be his last given his age. Romano finishes by reiterating that the player won&#8217;t make a decision, but PSG are preparing a new deal and Barcelona are interested.<\/p>\n<h2>Lionel Messi Not Making Any Decision on His Future<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leo Messi will not make any decision on his future in the next weeks or months. Focused on Paris Saint-Germain and then World Cup, nothing will be decided or planned before the World Cup. \u2b50\ufe0f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PSG<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Despite PSG new deal plans and Bar\u00e7a interest, Leo will not proceed before 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jS4OtCRWWt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jS4OtCRWWt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1569610208229433346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Grass May Not Be Greener<\/h3>\n<p>To say the footballing world was shocked when the 35-year-old left his long-time home for Paris would be an understatement. The grass hasn&#8217;t exactly been greener for the forward since his move to France however. In his first season, the team crashed out of the Champions League and he only managed 11 goals in 34 appearances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/08\/lionel-messi-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">The Impact Lionel Messi Leaving Will Have on Barcelona<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While season two in Paris has gotten off to a better start for both the man himself and his side, it remains to be seen if he can replicate the form that won him seven Ballon d&#8217;Or trophies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lionel Messi compared to all players in Europe&#39;s top five leagues this season:<\/p>\n<p>\u25c9 Most Big Chances created<br \/>\u25c9 Most take-ons completed<br \/>\u25c9 Most final \u2153 passes<br \/>\u25c9 Most through balls<br \/>\u25c9 Highest xA<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s more like it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehJOetazLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ehJOetazLn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1568298439548366848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Return to Barcelona?<\/h3>\n<p>Club President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/barcelona-espbarcelona\/story\/4708400\/barcelona-president-reiterates-lionel-messi-return-talk-we-have-a-moral-debt-to-him\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan Laporta<\/a> hasn&#8217;t been shy about his desire to bring the prodigal son back to the Catalan giants. While the five-time Champions League winners are still dealing with debt issues they managed to manoeuvre money well enough to make some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12671137\/barcelona-expected-to-register-new-signings-after-raising-85m-by-selling-24-5-per-cent-of-barca-studios\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blockbuster signings<\/a> this off-season. Who&#8217;s to say they couldn&#8217;t do it again to get Messi back?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/06\/lionel-messis-greatest-barcelona-goals\/\" target=\"_self\">Lionel Messi\u2019s Greatest Barcelona Goals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans of the Blaugrana will no doubt be licking their lips at the idea of seeing their hero back at the team, lining up next to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/23\/robert-lewandowski\/\" target=\"_self\">Robert Lewandowski<\/a> in a killer attacking partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has issued an update on the future of Lionel Messi as his initial Paris Saint-Germain contract is set to end in the summer of 2023. Romano&#8217;s report states that &#8220;Leo Messi will not make any decision on his future in the next weeks or months&#8221;. The Argentine is currently focused on his parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":617877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,1365,6,7,7188],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-617861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-saint-germain","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-ligue-1","category-rumours","tag-lionel-messi"],"modified_by":"Alex Morley, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}