Barcelona plotting deal to reunite friends Lionel Messi & Sergio Aguero

Barcelona have made a ‘formal provide’ to signal Manchester Metropolis striker Sergio Aguero in an try to influence Lionel Messi to stay on the membership.

Messi’s future has been the topic of intense hypothesis after he handed in a switch request final summer season. Though finally unable to depart Camp Nou in 2020 attributable to his lofty launch clause, his contract expires in June 2021 and as issues stand, he’s poised to go away Barcelona without cost this summer season.

Newly-elected Barcelona president Joan Laporta had preserving Messi’s Barcelona future entrance and centre of his election marketing campaign, attributable to his present relationship with the ahead following his earlier tenure as membership president.

In accordance with Argentinian information outlet TyC Sports, Laporta sees bringing Messi‘s compatriot Aguero to Camp Nou as a method of convincing the six-time Ballon d’Or winner to stay with the membership.

The pair are long-term worldwide teammates and associates, successful the Beneath-20 World Cup collectively in 2005, making their senior Argentina debuts as youngsters inside 13 months of each other and taking part in for Argentina’s Olympic gold medal-winning staff in 2008.

They’ve been roommates on worldwide obligation since their days within the youth staff collectively, with Aguero evaluating their relationship to that of ‘an old married couple‘ in 2020.

Aguero’s Manchester City contract additionally expires in June 2021, and the report states that Laporta has made a ‘formal provide’ to the 32-year-old striker.

Aguero – Metropolis’s all-time high scorer – has been restricted to only seven Premier League appearances this season attributable to damage, and on Tuesday Pep Guardiola revealed that he’ll fastidiously think about the striker’s future throughout March’s worldwide break.

“Possibly I’ll give it some thought when the worldwide break begins and I’ve extra time,” Guardiola mentioned (by way of the Guardian). “As a human and as an individual – at the same time as a participant after all [I’d like him to stay]. However we’ve to see what occurs on the finish of the season.”