)Messi: "I wanted to return, I was very excited to be able to return, but after having experienced what I experienced and the exit I had, I did not want to be in the same situation again: waiting to see what was going to happen and leaving my future in the hands of another." [md]
Messi: "I heard that they [Barça] had to sell players or lower players' salaries and the truth is that I didn't want to go through that." [md]
Messi: "I made the decision to go to Miami. I still haven't closed it one hundred percent. I'm missing some things but we decided to continue on the path. If the Barcelona thing didn't work out, I wanted to leave Europe, get out of the spotlight and think more of my family."
Leo Messi to MD: “If it had been a matter of money, I would have gone to Arabia or elsewhere. It seemed like a lot of money to me and the truth is that my decision goes elsewhere and not because of money.”
Messi: “I had other offers from Europe, but I didn’t evaluate them because of Barcelona
Messi: "I was afraid that the same thing would happen again, that I had to come here 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 wanted to make my own decision." [md]
Messi: "After having achieved everything thanks to God and having finally achieved the World Cup, which is what I wanted so much, I also wanted to look for something else and a bit of peace of mind." [md]
Messi: "These were two years [PSG] in which I was not happy, I did not enjoy myself, and that affected my family life, I missed a lot of my children's lives at school." [md]