They are waiting for it to continue. Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of Paris Saint-Germain, has come out of rumors about the possible departure of Lionel Messi after the end of his contract with the French club, and said that the striker wants to stay at the entity.
The PSG coach said: “We agreed with Lionel Messi that we will talk after the World Cup. I’ve said it a thousand times: he’s very happy at the club, he’s having a very good season. I think he wants to stay.” , without giving further details about the possible renewal.
The PSG president was pleased to have three World Cup semi-finalists from his club – Argentina’s Messi, France’s Kylian Mbappé and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi -.
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“I currently have the two best players in the world, Kylian and Leo Messi. Each of them has scored five goals. Paris Saint-Germain has scored 13. We are the best team in the World Cup finals,” he said.
And in Sunday’s final, Al-Khulaifi said that he supports France, because Paris Saint-Germain is a French club and he himself considers this country his second home.
However, he made it clear that, if he could, he would give the World Cup to both teams because Alviceleste also had “a very good World Cup with Lionel Messi”.
The Qatar official admitted to being sad about the exclusion of another candidate, the Brazilian Neymar, a Paris Saint-Germain player, and assumed that he expected to see Argentina and Brazil in the semi-finals, frustrated with the Croatian victory on penalties against the five-time champion ” Selection”.
He highlighted: “It is not easy for him (Neymar). I spoke to him (…) He was very sad. I also spoke to his father. It is also very difficult for him.”
Al-Khulaifi is considered the most internationally famous Qatari and rejected his country’s criticism of workers killed in the World Cup works and the position on collective rights of the LGTBI group.
“We saw that Qataris are not bad. We gave our heart, our country, to the whole world. It’s part of our culture. One psychic even said to me, ‘Are they like this all the time or just because?'” World Cup? the scientist? Before and after the tournament, we are like this.” (EFE)