WATCH | Hero’s welcome for Messi in Paris
Many Barcelona fans were distraught at the end of Messi’s glittering, trophy-laden career at the club he joined as a schoolboy.
But the arrival of Barcelona’s top scorer will boost PSG’s ambitions to win the Champions League for the first time. Messi won four Champions League titles while at Barcelona, as well as 10 LaLiga titles.Messi is the latest big-name arrival at PSG after coach Mauricio Pochettino’s side snapped up Spanish defender Sergio Ramos after he left Real Madrid. Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum also joined after running down his contract with Liverpool.
Italy’s Euro 2020-winning goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has also joined after his contract with AC Milan ran out, while Moroccan fullback Achraf Hakimi joined from Inter Milan for a reported €60 million .555 million and reported to be the most lucrative in world sport, is also set to provoke a renewed new debate about Uefa’s financial fair play rules.
The rules were first introduced in 2009 to restrict some of the worst excesses of the game, but have been criticised by some leading figures for being ineffective.
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