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Messi is gone, and what's left at Barcelona is a smoking crater of a warning for the rest of the sport. More from Yahoo Sports: U.S. men’s hoops rallies late to win 4th straight gold
PARIS (Reuters) -Lionel Messi joined star-packed Paris St Germain on Tuesday after leaving Barcelona, the club where he had begun and expected to end his career. Messi, a six-times winner of the ...
[149] [150] Barcelona would eventually announce that Messi would not be staying at the club, citing financial and structural obstacles posed by La Liga regulations as a reason for Messi's departure. [151] [152] In a tearful press conference held at the Camp Nou, Messi confirmed that he would be leaving Barcelona. [153]
A poor team performance saw Paris lose 2–1 in Germany, leaving them on the brink of a fourth consecutive last-16 elimination. [93] But Thomas Tuchel's team stepped up in the return leg as Neymar scored the first goal and led PSG to the quarter-finals with a 2–0 victory over Dortmund at an empty Parc des Princes because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 10 March, Messi scored from 35 yards out and later had a penalty saved in a 1–1 away draw against last season’s Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes in the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 as Barcelona were eliminated at this stage for the first time in 14 years by an aggregate score of 5–2 after ...
Messi, who'll be 36 at the end of June, joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 after an illustrious 17-season career at Barcelona FC. Though he scored 22 goals and assisted on 30 more in 57 matches ...
[72] [73] [74] PSG concluded their transfer window with the signing of one of the greatest players of all time and record Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi, who unexpectedly left Barcelona following the expiration of his contract, and promising defender Nuno Mendes on an initial loan, which was made permanent in 2022.
What seemed supremely unlikely less than a week ago is now, apparently, a reality.