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Messi reveals he choose Inter Miami is because of Barcelona

Lionel Messi reveals that he choose to join Inter Miami is because he does not want Barcelona to suffer from the economic crisis just like two years ago when he left the Catalan side.

Messi is now only an official announcement away from joining David Beckham’s Inter Miami as no more hope for Barcelona to re-sign their legend after he left Paris Saint-Germain.

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Messi explain his choice to join Miami

In an interview with two Spanish sports news outlets, Messi confirmed that he planned to sign a contract with Inter Miami, the M.L.S. team partially co-owned by Premier and MSL iconic David Beckham.

He declined an offer to play in Saudi Arabia, which reportedly offer hime more than 1 billion euro to promote tourism in the kingdom and is seeking to build its national league by signing international stars.

“I made the decision that I am going to go to Miami,” Messi told Sport and Mundo Deportivo. “I still haven’t closed it 100 percent. I’m missing some things, but we decided to continue the path.”

He “obviously really wanted to return,” he said, and had discussed the idea with Xavi Hernández, the club’s manager, and Joan Laporta, its president.

Ultimately, though, Barcelona’s financial crisis forced his hand as the club could not afford his lucrative salary which led to his decision to join PSG.

“I heard they had to sell players or lower salaries, and the truth is that I did not want to go through that,” he said, suggesting that he did not want to be held responsible for forcing Barcelona to adjust its squad simply to accommodate him.

“I wanted to make my own decision, thinking about myself and my family,”

“If it had been a question of money, I would have gone to Arabia or somewhere,” Messi said. Instead, though, he insisted his decision had been made for reasons other than the purely economic.