OFFICIAL: Messi Joins Inter Miami as Barcelona's Hopes is Over ( Reasons why Leo join Inter Miami over other portetial suitors )

 

It has finally become official. The Barcelona dream is over as Messi has decided that his career will continue in the United States, he announced on Wednesday in an interview with ‘Mundo Deportivo’. The Argentine star has signed for Inter Miami and will most likely play the last years of his career in the MLS.

Although there was a lot of speculation about the future of the former Paris Saint-Germain player, it was finally the MLS team who managed to convince the player.

Both Al Hilal and Barcelona fought to bring in the ’10’ until the very last minute. Al Hilal had the advantage that their offer could not be matched financially, while the ‘Cules’ tried to convince Messi emotionally and trust the player to base his decision on his feeling of returning to play for the team of his life.

However, on Wednesday several media outlets reported that Inter Miami had overtaken the Saudi side and the Catalan giants in the race to sign the Qatar 2022 World Cup winner.

In this way, Messi starts a new journey and will play for the third club of his career after having spent most of it at Barcelona and having played the last two years at Paris Saint-Germain.

This is undoubtedly a hard blow for Barcelona who considered almost all possible options to bring back the best player in their history. However, due to the poor financial situation of the ‘Cules’ and the problems to comply with the Financial Fair play the Catalan team will not be able to fulfil their dream of seeing Lionel Messi back at the Camp Nou.

MESSI EXPLAIN WHY HE REJECTED BARCELONA’S  OFFER: I Want To Make My Own Decisions

The Argentine star gave an interview to ‘Mundo Deportivo’ to reveal his new destination and to explain his decisions. The 35-year-old explained why he rejected the Catalan giants’ proposal.

“I made the decision that I’m going to go to Inter 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 come out, I wanted to leave Europe, get out of the spotlight and think more in my family,” he began.

“I wanted to make my own decision, thinking about myself, about my family. Although I heard that it was said that La Liga had accepted everything and that everything was fine for him to return, there were still many other things that had to be done,” Messi added.

Furthermore, the Qatar World Cup winner said he did not want Xavi Hernandez’s side to make efforts to sign him: “I heard that they had to sell players or lower players’ salaries and the truth is that I didn’t want to go through that, nor take charge of obtaining something that had to do with all that.

“I have already been accused of many things that were not true in my career at Barcelona and I was already a bit tired, I didn’t want to go through all that,” he continued.

“Well, I was afraid that the same thing would happen again and I had to go through the bullfight as it happened, 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… Although I would have loved it, it couldn’t.

“I am also in a moment where I want to get out of focus a bit, think more about my family. As I was just saying, I spent two years at a family level that was so bad that I didn’t enjoy it.”