The Rosario born striker is set to join the MLS side when his contract expires with PSG at the end of the month.
Leo Messi is still big box office and the reaction from fans across the world to his move to MLS side Inter Miami is testament to that.
Despite the fact that the Argentine will not officially be a Miami player until 1 July with his current PSG contract officially expiring on 30 June, fans Stateside have snapped up every ticket for all the remaining home and away Inter Miami games with many anxious to see the man from Rosario at close quarters.
Sales of the black and pink Inter Miami shirts bearing the Argentine’s name are set to pulverize existing MLS records with the likes of Beckham, Zlatan, Thierry Henry and Chicharito holding previous records.
On the day prior to the news breaking that Messi was destined for MLS, Inter Miami (one of the newer teams in the league) had an Instagram following of one million followers. In the 48 hours since Messi admitted that he was set to play for the Florida based side, that number of followers has rocketed to 6.5 million.
The club has seen a similar trend across their Facebook, Twitter and TikTok accounts with the various platforms securing 235,000 followers per hour following the news that the mercurial striker is MLS bound.
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Messi to Inter Miami deal include shares in Apple. So basically Ronaldo fans using Apple products will give Messi money
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To be sincere I like his idea of going to inter Miami my reasons are this if he goes to Saudi he goes for the money and if he didn’t perform well base on age factors and the weather over there the fans may not respect him and he may get embarrassed just as psg did on the other hand if he gets to Barca people will expect him to perform magic just as when he was 22/24 which is not possible and the people there are not the same as when they enjoy playing together the likes of alba busquet and others are no longer there but at inter new things are expected of him and may not play against aggressive opponents so I like his idea good luck to the GOAT we are lucky to exist in the era of Messi and Ronaldo I respect them both