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A manager of one of the three great teams in Spain is clear: "He can only go to Paris." Another, a neighbor of the first, confirms it: "The only place where they do what they want with financial Fair Play is at PSG. It's a shame!" So it seems clear that, not taking long, Paris Saint-Germain will announce the signing of

Leo Messi

. Negotiations began between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, once, as

Joan Laporta

acknowledged

, Barça informed the footballer's father that there was no way to pay him what he asked for.

The French team's own coach, also Argentine,

Mauricio Pochettino

, confirmed this Friday in his own way.

"The club is working," he said, making the negotiations explicit.

"We are analyzing all the possibilities and this is one of them," he said, knowing that in the next few days there will be a solution.

Among other things because, beyond

Neymar being there

, Paris being just over an hour by plane from Barcelona, ​​beyond any circumstance that can help, PSG is the only one capable of finding a way to pay Messi , either directly or indirectly, either in the years programmed by the contract or with some subsequent formula.

Complex contract

PSG begins its League this Saturday (against Troyes, at 9:00 p.m.), so the delay will only depend on financial engineering to pay the player. Sources familiar with the market have explained to this newspaper that, despite the army of advisers and protagonists that both parties have, or precisely because of that, closing a contract like Messi's can take at least two weeks. The legal architecture also matters, as well as taxation, an aspect, this, that could have led Messi to Italy, the place where high-level athletes are best treated today in Europe.

The other way that Messi had to collect what he asks for was Manchester City, but the operation known on Thursday, for which

Guardiola's

team

pays 117 million euros to Aston Villa, has closed that option, as the coach himself recognized .

"We have just signed

Grealish

, and he will be the one who wears our number 10, because we took it for granted that Messi would stay at Barça," explained Pep, who according to some sources was not very convinced of meeting the Argentine again at this point in the season. movie.

Messi, meanwhile, will train these days on his own in Barcelona waiting for his situation to be resolved.

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