The soccer community responds to Lionel Messi's news

Lionel Messi, the standout player for Argentina who led them to victory over France in the 2022 World Cup, made a major choice about his future with his current club

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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) just days after the victory.The Twitter account of Le Parisien Sport claims that Messi and PSG have reached an agreement to keep him at the club through

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the 2023–24 season.Messi has been with PSG since 2021, when he signed a two-year contract with the top French club, and it looks that he intends to stay with the club for

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the foreseeable future.He'll be reunited with rising French sensation Kylian Mbappé, who impressed in the World Cup and challenged Messi all the way to the final, when he returns

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to the club for the 2023–24 season.In response, soccer fans all around the world went to social media to express their delight at his decision to extend his contract with PSG by

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another year."Messi will remain with PSG. Rejects Inter Miami. Sporting News' Kyle Bonn tweeted, "His performance at the World Cup shows he is still very definitely a world-class

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player capable of continuing to compete for additional Champions League hardware."No negotiations ever took place between Leo Messi and Barcelona, and he never accepted a deal from

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Inter Miami. Freelance Italian soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano tweeted that both clubs had expressed interest in signing him but that negotiations had stalled.

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It would have been fascinating to watch a superstar like Lionel Messi play in the Major League Soccer for Inter Miami,

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but it appears that negotiations will not begin until at least the end of the 2023–24 season.

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