Speaking at a public appearance, La Liga president Javier Tebas has given his two cents about Barcelona and their attempts to re-sign Lionel Messi in the summer.
The La Liga supremo has often been hard on Barcelona hitting out at their financial practices, over the Negreira case and their involvement in the Super League project.
Talking about the possible return of Messi in the summer, Tebas had previously suggested that it would be complicated for Barça to finalise a deal due to their current Financial Fair Play situation.
Barcelona have already sent their economic viability plan to La Liga and giving an insight into it, Tebas suggested that the club have a chance to raise a good amount of money by selling players this summer, which would then help them re-sign Messi.
“Barcelona are going to sell players for good amounts. Their plan is going that way,” he said (h/t AS).
“The best players stay in Spain and they say that Leo wants to return to Spain, and it will have to be for less money than at PSG.”
“They have their strategy to sign more players. I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do, but if they’ve managed to have that revenue, they’ve been able to spend more on players,” he added.
“We discussed the consequences of the documentation received with the club. Until they see their plan is done, they will continue to exceed it. Here we don’t look at whether they bring him in for Messi or Mbappé. We tell them that they have so much money to sign.”
For Barcelona to re-sign Messi or any other player for that matter, they need to receive a green light from Barcelona on their economic viability plan and execute it. The Blaugrana, thus, will need to sell players and make cuts to their salary mass.
