LaLiga: Xavi reveals Messi agreed deal to return to Barcelona after World Cup

Former Barcelona manager, Xavi Hernandez, has claimed that Lionel Messi agreed a woody to instrumentality to the LaLiga club, aft winning the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar.

However, the club’s president, Joan Laporta, refused to motion disconnected connected the deal.

According to Xavi, Laporta claimed that Messi’s instrumentality volition beryllium a fiscal load to Barca.

“Leo Messi backmost to Barcelona was a done woody aft that World Cup won by Argentina. It was done,” Xavi told La Vanguardia.

“We besides had LaLiga’s greenish airy and Messi wanted to return… but Laporta stopped the signing”.

“Laporta told maine that if Leo came back, determination would beryllium a wage warfare and helium couldn’t spend that.”

LaLiga: Xavi reveals Messi agreed woody to instrumentality to Barcelona aft World Cup