PSG yet to contact Lionel Messi despite reports of suspension after Saudi Arabia trip | Football News

Lionel Messi has not had any communication from Paris Saint-Germain but regardless of reviews the membership have fined and suspended him for a visit to Saudi Arabia.

Messi is known to have requested PSG for permission to have the ability to journey to the nation, which he did on Sunday night time, having twice postponed a scheduled business journey there beforehand attributable to crew defeats.

In accordance with reviews in L’Equipe on Tuesday, nevertheless, Messi didn’t get that permission and has due to this fact been suspended for 2 video games and fined two weeks’ wages.

L’Equipe additionally report that PSG modified their plans and determined to run a coaching season on Monday following Sunday’s shock residence defeat to Lorient, whereas Messi was already within the air and travelling to Saudi Arabia.

PSG don’t usually schedule coaching periods on Mondays and Tuesdays after a Sunday sport, and aren’t set to play once more till subsequent Sunday, so Messi is known to have believed it to be okay to journey.

It is usually mentioned that it was near-impossible to cancel the journey for a 3rd time because of the imminent high-temperature season set to start on the Arabian peninsula.

One of many events Messi postponed the journey to Arabia is known to have been after the Champions League exit by the hands of Bayern Munich, deciding of his personal accord not to take action as a result of he was so annoyed with the elimination, sources say.

Messi, who has returned to Paris tonight (Tuesday), posted on his Instagram in partnership with VisitSaudi an image of a row of palm timber with the caption: “Who thought Saudi has a lot inexperienced? I like to discover its surprising wonders each time I can. #visitsaudi.”

It was appreciated by greater than 5.6m individuals.

Saudi Arabian membership Al Hilal wish to signal Messi this summer season when his contract at PSG runs out and, with the backing of the nation, are ready to pay him an astronomical £400m for only one season in an effort to market a league that comprises each Cristiano Ronaldo and the 2022 World Cup winner.

Messi’s talks with PSG over a contract extension are at the moment on ice as he awaits extra readability over the membership’s sporting plans for subsequent season, and an exit in the summertime was described as more and more seemingly final month, with former membership Barcelona additionally .

Sky Sports activities Information has approached PSG for remark.

Barca stepping up chase for Messi return

Barcelona have already tried to step up their efforts to make Messi a contract provide this summer season by speaking to LaLiga about producing extra flexibility of their Monetary Honest Play ratio.

The membership are in talks with the league concerning their spending limits for subsequent season, with the thought firmly in thoughts to try to convey Messi again to the Nou Camp for what’s prone to be his final 12 months in European soccer.

Nevertheless, it won’t be straightforward with Barca having been charged by LaLiga for breaching their restrict with three gamers in the course of the 2021-22 season, together with ex-Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen and had been pressured to re-register Gavi as an academy participant.

The Christensen superb has been efficiently appealed however Barca stay on the very restrict of what they’ll spend and can virtually actually have to maneuver gamers on to accommodate a Messi return.

However, the membership are working very a lot with that intention in thoughts and so they have been buoyed by the current lack of progress in Messi’s contract talks with Paris Saint-Germain.

Nevertheless, supervisor Xavi advised reporters final week it was “too quickly” to invest whether or not he would return to the membership.

“In the case of Leo, we do not know if it’ll occur or not,” he mentioned. “We do not know. It is too quickly to speak about it.

“Successful the title is essential to us, for the membership, the employees and the gamers it might give us a variety of stability. As for brand new gamers arriving, we’ll speak about it as soon as we have received LaLiga.”