Lionel Messi Inter Miami salary as Barcelona legend set to sign whopping nine-figure deal

Lionel Messi transfer news as former PSG and Barcelona forward looks set to sign for MLS side Inter Miami who are part-owned by former Manchester United and England star David Beckham

Lionel Messi is set to sign for Major League Soccer side Inter Miami after leaving Paris Saint-Germain.

The Barcelona-based website Sport reports that Messi has been handed a four-year deal, with the Argentina World Cup hero keen on a move to Miami because he already has a home there and his family can settle quickly. Relevo has claimed that Messi will earn around $54million per season, a total of a whopping $220million if he sees out his contract at Inter.

He will become the MLS' highest-paid player if the move is complete. "I made the decision that I am going to go to Miami," Messi said in an interview with the Spanish newspapers Sport and Mundo Deportivo.

"I still haven't closed it 100%. I'm missing some things, but we decided to continue on the path.

"If the Barcelona thing didn’t work out, I wanted to leave Europe, get out of the spotlight and think more in my family. I really wanted, I was very excited to be able to return [to Barcelona], but after having experienced what I experienced and the exit I had, I did not want to be in the same situation again - waiting to see what was going to happen.

"I heard that they had to sell players or lower players' salaries and the truth is that I didn't want to go through that, nor take charge of obtaining something that had to do with all that."