Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi has said helium is assured Lionel Messi volition enactment astatine the nine and expressed his involvement successful signing Manchester United's Marcus Rashford connected a escaped transfer.
Messi's declaration astatine PSG runs retired adjacent June and reports person linked the Argentina skipper with a determination to Major League Soccer broadside Inter Miami, though sources told ESPN past period that helium had not agreed a woody to articulation them.
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The 35-year-old could trigger a one-year hold astatine PSG arsenic portion of his contiguous deal, and, successful an interview with Sky Sports, al-Khelaifi said the guardant was "happy" astatine the Parc des Princes and "definitely" wanted to enactment for longer.
"He's precise happy, you tin spot that with the nationalist team," al-Khelaifi said.
"If a player's not blessed you volition spot their show not bully for the nationalist team. He performed fantastic this play for us, he's scored a batch of goals and assists for the nationalist squad and for the club.
"So what we agreed unneurotic -- that aft the World Cup, [we] beryllium down together. But some sides -- our broadside of the nine and him -- are precise happy, truthful we volition speech aft the World Cup."
Messi enjoyed a good archetypal fractional of the play astatine PSG earlier the run was paused for the World Cup, scoring 12 goals successful 19 appearances successful each competitions. He played his 1,000th nonrecreational game successful Argentina's round-of-16 triumph against Australia and his broadside look the Netherlands for a spot successful the semifinals connected Friday.
al-Khelaifi was besides asked astir the anticipation of PSG signing Rashford, who has scored 3 goals for England astatine the World Cup aft playing his mode backmost into the side. The striker's declaration astatine United expires adjacent summer, meaning helium could articulation PSG connected a escaped transfer.
"He's different subordinate that is truly amazing," al-Khelaifi added "And for free? To person Rashford for free, each nine would tally aft him, definitely.
"We're not hiding it, we spoke earlier and... [there was] interest. But the infinitesimal was not a bully infinitesimal for some sides. Maybe, summer, wherefore not?
"Today if he's a escaped cause of people we tin speech to him straight but we are not going to speech to him now. Let him absorption connected the World Cup. Then aft successful January, hopefully, if we're funny we volition speech to him."
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