Angel Di Maria has again made an attempt to lure Lionel Messi to Paris Saint-Germain, claiming it would be 'wonderful' to have the superstar as a team-mate.
Messi, 33, is out of contract with Barca in the summer and his future in more doubt than it ever has been during his 21 years association with the club.
PSG are one of the favourites along with Manchester City to land the football great if he moves on and Di Maria, who plays with Messi for Argentina, has spoken out in hopes of swaying him towards the Parisians.
Speaking to BeIn Sports, Di Maria said: 'From my whole career, from everything I've seen, I think Leo is from another planet. To have him as a team-mate would be wonderful.
'But he is a Barcelona player, he has a contract. After that, we'll see. I talk a lot with him and I always tell him that the important thing is his happiness and that of his family. It's hard to say anything else.'
Despite revealing he wants to leave last summer, Barca have become increasingly hopeful the Argentine will stay, with manager Ronald Koeman reiterating his desire to keep him at the club and new president Joan Laporta giving them fresh hope.
They hope talks of a potential reunion with Neymar, who has stalled on his PSG contract talks, at Barca may be a crucial factor.
It is not the first time Di Maria has has had his say on Messi moving to the Ligue 1 club, with Koeman slamming his 'disrespectful' comments before the two sides met in Febraury.
'Yes, yes, I hope so,' Di Maria said when asked whether Messi could join him in Paris. 'There are many possibilities. We have to be calm and things will develop.'
In January, PSG director Leonardo fuelled talk of a move for Messi later this year when speaking to France Football.
'Great players like Messi will always be on PSG's list. But this is of course not the time to talk about it, or to dream about it,' the PSG chief said.
bestbest2095
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when Ronaldo was in Messi age he did great things, let's wait till Messi get to Ronaldo age and see what he can perform but for now, Messi get the lead, I'm a fully Liverpool fan and I support both because they're the best together
Yawbdruz
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di Maria you're so selfish to think like this.be informed that Messi is far bigger than the whole Psg team that do not have any character to win a champions league.take example from neyman jnr when is father was lured with $40.000 to lured his son to that so called farmers league ,check his performance now .don't you see that neymar is confuse and want to come back.? Messi's father is far cleaver and focus and really mean a better future for his son .he's well focus and can identify a real hope in camp nou where there's youthful exuberance which ll guarantee that he can play for more years and counting to collect his Laurie's .your psg should take example from juventus.they ve never won a champions league before.when they went in for Christiano Rinaldo didn't they think they can win it if they signed him .go and asked them if they have achieved that aim .Messi ll never play farmers league okay
26004358(deleted)
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Everyone one wants messi in their team coz they know what he can deliver to the team ....scoring goals is what he wants everytime but creating chances is what he loves.....but DANCING with defenders is what make him happy...
Jueabcdmpr
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when Ronaldo was in Messi age he did great things, let's wait till Messi get to Ronaldo age and see what he can perform but for now, Messi get the lead, I'm a fully Liverpool fan and I support both because they're the best together
you sound like a clown,Age don't have nothing to do with performance, Ronaldo is just 2 year older than messi and both of them are up in age so you don't make no sense 👎👎🤦🤦