Lionel Messi ‘learning French’ amid PSG transfer interest as Barcelona face summer ordeal

Lionel Messi is reportedly studying French amid heavy curiosity within the Barcelona celebrity from Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain.

Messi, 33, is out of contract this summer season and PSG have made no secret of their want to lure the Argentine to Parc des Princes.

Little progress has been made concerning a contract extension with Barcelona and the uncertainty over their captain’s future might hardly come at a worse time for the Catalans.

Barca make clear the total extent of their debt as they launched their monetary statements earlier this week.

A report by Spanish newspaper El Mundo broke down the numbers and located Barcelona owe banks £240million by the top of June.

The dimensions of the Camp Nou membership’s debt stands at over £1billion, although a brand new Deloitte research finds Barcelona still have the largest revenues of any facet in world soccer.

Nonetheless, stories from Spain declare Barcelona’s gamers weren’t paid in December and the possibilities of them having the ability to make strikes in the summertime switch window look more and more unlikely.

This additionally means Barca might battle to desk a brand new contract to maintain Messi, already their greatest earner, past the summer season.

Messi is but to verify whether or not he’ll stick with the La Liga giants or seek for a brand new problem, however Canal+ stories the participant and his household are studying French.

His hyperlinks with PSG have solely intensified throughout latest weeks following the appointment of his compatriot Mauricio Pochettino as supervisor.

In the meantime, PSG sporting director Leonardo admitted he’s “intently following” developments on Messi’s state of affairs.

However Barca boss Ronald Koeman performed down rumours of panic at Camp Nou following the discharge of the monetary statements.

“All groups undergo economically from the impacts of Covid,” he stated. “Barca additionally suffers from the shortage of tourism.

“All golf equipment can get fairly dangerous numbers in the intervening time as a result of this. It’s not solely right here. From what I’ve seen, the gamers are usually not impacted by this.”

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