Lionel Messi is in advanced talks with Barcelona about a new contract - but there are still important details yet to be agreed. Messi is also more than 8,000 kilometres away from Catalonia, playing with the Argentina national team at the Copa America, and his father and agent Jorge Messi left Barcelona this week, making the exact timing of his potential signing still uncertain. Then Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu insisted they would hold him to a €700m release clause, however. Bartomeu has since resigned and Messi wanted to listen to the plans of his successor Joan Laporta - voted in in March - before deciding his future. Messi also wants to one day play in MLS.

Source: Sky sports June 25, 2021 14:25 UTC