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lexy2014:
thats not what i asked you.

If Saudi is for finished players, what is MLS for? Is it for European champions league?

Meanwhile, pls check out the following to help you comfort yourself

lexy2014:
thats not what i asked you.

If Saudi is for finished players, what is MLS for? Is it for European champions league?

Meanwhile, pls check out the following to help you comfort yourself

The most decorated player in the sport’s history is taking his talents to South Beach, agreeing to a multiyear deal with Inter Miami of MLS. Messi even confirmed it himself.

" I made the decision that I’m going to go to Miami,” Messi said in Spanish in a brief video released Wednesday by Diario Sport, a Spanish sports daily. “I still haven’t finalized it 100%. We’re missing some things. But we’ve decided to continue on this path.”

It’s a path that could prove transformative for MLS, already the fasting-growing top-tier soccer league in the world.

Jorge Mas, Inter Miami’s CEO and managing owner, teased the announcement by posting a stylish picture of a No. 10 Inter Miami jersey — Messi’s number — on his social media account while the league released a cautiously optimistic two-sentence statement.

We are pleased that Lionel Messi has stated that he intends to join Inter Miami CF and Major League Soccer this summer,” it read. “Although work remains to finalize a formal agreement, we look forward to welcoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time to our League

MLS has more than doubled in size, from 12 to 30 teams, since David Beckham’s arrival in 2007 and expansion fees have gone from $10 million to half a billion dollars over that span. Last year MLS had the sixth-highest average attendance of any soccer league on the planet, and with the World Cup returning to North America in three years, the sport is primed to break through a crowded sports landscape in the U.S.

Messi will supercharge that push.

A seven-time world player of the year Messi, who will turn 36 later this month, led Argentina to its first World Cup title in 36 years last fall, bringing him the only major prize his resume was missing. In 17 seasons with Barcelona, he won 10 La Liga titles and four Champions League crowns while leading Europe’s top leagues in scoring six times. He spent the last two years in France, winning two league championship with Paris Saint-Germain, and his 806 goals for club and country ranks second all-time behind only Cristiano Ronaldo.

Barcelona, which failed in its attempt to lure Messi back for an encore, said club president Joan Laporta was informed of the player’s decision Monday. On Wednesday the team issued a statement of its own that appeared to belittle MLS, saying that it “respected Messi’s decision to want to compete in a league with fewer demands, further away from the spotlight and the pressure he has been subject to in recent years.”

"The player, who two years ago spent $7.2 million to buy the entire ninth floor of a luxury condo tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., seemed to back that view, telling the Spanish sports newspaper Mundo Deportivo that he “wanted to leave Europe, get out of the spotlight, and think more about my family.”

After winning the World Cup and not being able to return to Barcelona, it was my turn to go to the league of the United States to live football in another way and to enjoy the day-to-day more,” he added

The fact that a league with a salary cap was able to outbid the deep-pocketed Saudi Pro League, Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari owners and Barcelona, which Deloitte ranks as the seventh-richest club in the world, is astonishing. And it took a lot of creativity and cooperation from MLS and two of the league’s primary partners, Apple and Adidas, to get it done.

The financial details of Messi’s Inter Miami contract have not been released, but he reportedly earned a base salary of more $40 million a season in his two years with PSG and was offered $400 million a year to play in Saudi Arabia.

MLS teams have an annual payroll of $5.21 million. For the entire team. Messi would have made that much in less than a week in Riyadh.

But MLS permits teams to sign as many as three designated players to unlimited salaries, just a fraction of which applies to the cap. That rule was adopted in 2007 to allow the Galaxy to sign Beckham for a then-record $6.5 million a season.

The league sweetened that offer by including a clause that allowed Beckham to buy an MLS expansion franchise for $25 million, an offer he accepted in 2013 when he joined the ownership group in Miami. With the signing of Messi, Beckham is altering the trajectory of MLS a second time. But with expansion fees now going for $500 million, the league had to find another way to finance the deal.

So MLS looked to its partners, according to league sources with knowledge of the negotiations not authorized to discuss them publicly. Apple, in the first season of a 10-year $2.5-billion agreement to carry league games on its Apple TV streaming platform, will help underwrite the contract as will Adidas, the league’s kit sponsor, which has worked with Messi since 2006. Both could benefit mightily from the signing with Apple, which announced Tuesday that it will be airing a four-part documentary series on Messi’s World Cup win last fall, anticipating a surge in international subscriptions to its MLS Season Pass package.

But it’s unlikely anyone will benefit from Messi’s decision more than MLS, which is getting a priceless boost in both attention and prestige..

The financial impact of the deal is already being felt in some corners of the league despite the fact it’s not even final yet: With Messi expected to make his MLS debut in July, the asking price for tickets to Inter Miami’s Sept. 3 game with LAFC at BMO Stadium topped $4,700 on the secondary market Wednesday afternoon.

MrBrownJay1:
why wont i quote you USELESS MESS-HE CHEERLEADING IGNORAMUS THAT WERE QUICK TO TALK SHIIT WHEN OTHER GOAT WENT TO PLAY IN YEYE CAMEL LEAGUE... but now karma hit you in the face OLODO!!!!

MrBrownJay1:
why wont i quote you USELESS MESS-HE CHEERLEADING IGNORAMUS THAT WERE QUICK TO TALK SHIIT WHEN OTHER GOAT WENT TO PLAY IN YEYE CAMEL LEAGUE... but now karma hit you in the face OLODO!!!!

rinzaugustine:
honeric01 , semid4lyfe how can you guys be moderators and allow posts like these from this moniker that pollutes Nairaland all over this forum? I have seen people banned for harmless posts for 1 month but why this ? Is it an oversight or tribal complicity that allowed this?

MrBrownJay1:
bro, i am so much laughing at all you yeye useless people who were quick to talk don about CR7 when he went to play for camel league while now your idol is doing exactly the same. you people are such hypocrites now saying that MLS is better than camel league bla bla bla while anyone can understand that Mess-e is as washed up of a player as CR7.

i am LAUGHING TIL DEATH! karma is a bitch!

https://www.reactiongifs.com/r/4d.gif

MrBrownJay1:
lol when i remember the amount of garbage you were writing on Messi, i can only but laugh at how completely wrong you were... you know nothing about football, you are so useless you thought Messi was gonna move to Barcelona....NO EUROPEAN TEAM WANT THIS WASHED UP PLAYER and the best football on earth is played in Europe.

abeg go to your room and go change your menstuating pad

MrBrownJay1:
you ignoramus.....did you even know about Inter Miami before your idol decided to move there? yeye MLS good for washed up useless players, now suddenly you want to make mouth....?! SHATTTAAPP YEAH!

you call him the GOAT but, if he was he would be playing where the best football on earth is played (aka any top European league), yet NO EUROPEAN CLUB WANTS HIS WASHED UP USELESS OLD SELF TODAY!!!!

go cry me a river you, OLODO!!!!

rinzaugustine:
the reason he is going there is for English language. He doesn’t speak English and English is now such a universal language that if you can’t speak it at certain level you are shut out and which is the only edge Ronaldo has over him now because Ronaldo learnt English when he was In premier league and has been showing off with it on Messi every time the two are together like during that ballon dor ceremony

princeade86:
D fair of cr7. Let see how many players he will command to MLS due to his name like cr7 doing to for Saudi Arabia league with reasonable offer.

MrBrownJay1:
where are the HE-diots who were saying this washed up old and tired player was gonna sign back in BARCELONA....?!?!?! who has ever heard of INTER MIAMI sef?!?!? club that is barely 3 yrs old, BWAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

if true, you guys better go and hide with your head in the bar beach sand o! i can already picture yeye Almiron and Tesppidd now:

https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LH-cry.gif

CodeTemplar:
wait until he is Ronaldo's age before you mock.

Julius1995:
Lol. Clown. Is Saudi not even more competitive than the US league. Dey whine yourself.

princeade86:
dey play. Just dey play. Dey follow Media shotigbo. No team in Saudi Arabia league ever made such approach to sign him with such amount. Think well. What will he command for them if they pay him such amount.

todugo:
I am gathering all troll memes for Pessifanz . Una go hear am

PepeXKermit:
Saudi League is far more important, recognized and harder than MLS. he wants to go there to increase his scoring tally.

Ade1177:
Which dstv channel?

lexy2014:
If Saudi is for finished players, what is MLS for? Is it for European champions league?

Meanwhile, pls check out the following to help you comfort yourself

Beverlyjean:
This monkey again... no b only 1.2 billion Pounds ... they also wanted to give him all of Elon, Jeffand bill's money

At least camel league is better than the transgender league

Padipadi:
Let's agree Saudi is camel league. MLS is Dromedary league. 🐪
Seems you don't know Messi's finished.
At hos age, CR7 was still at Juventus.
So talk another thing.

MrBrownJay1:
see this olodo who was running upandan saying that his idol was going back to Barcelona... what happened?! the above is exactly what i told you was gonna happen and you were quick to write ARRANT NONSENSE on NL.

btw MLS is no better than camel league, they are both washed up yeye irrelevant leagues filled with washed up old tired and useless half dead players.

Spiff20:
You sound so convinced like you know what you're saying. Unfortunately, you don't. You follow popular beliefs. Perhaps you believe once you get to America you'll make it.

WHAT HAPPENED? Messi will become a free agent when his contract at Paris Saint-Germain officially expires on June 30, with the club having confirmed his departure before their final game of the Ligue 1 season. Speculation over the 35-year-old's next move has intensified since then, with Barcelona publicly stepping up their attempts to bring him back to Camp Nou. Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal have also been pushing hard to sign Messi in recent months, but Guillem Balague has now revealed that he will be embarking on the next stage of his career in America.


THE BIGGER PICTURE: Inter Miami have won the race to sign Messi with the help of commercial partners Apple and adidas. The Athletic have reported that the World Cup winner is set to a share of revenue from Apple TV+'s MLS Season Pass, while adidas have offered him a profit-sharing agreement to strengthen their long-term relationship.

AND WHAT'S MORE: Messi's father admitted earlier this week that his son favoured a return to Barcelona, but their precarious financial situation ultimately made a final deal impossible. Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba have all left the club since the turn of the year, but Barca still need to reduce their wage bill significantly before they will be able able to register any new players. Al-Hilal, meanwhile, will have to wait until at least 2024 before reigniting their interest in Messi, with GOAL having revealed that the forward asked to delay a potential move to the Middle East while assessing his options after leaving PSG.

Spiff20:
You can't buy an Infinix phone of 120k and call it piece of trash. A phone with 6gig ram and 132 gig memory. Phone freelancers use to multitask and make millions. How do you rate an entire brand with 30k phones they make? You people should rest abeg and use your iphones in Peace.

BackFromBalablu:
AHH ahn ahn Almiron, shey you know say na elderly woman you dey curse bayi

Sometimes we nigerians, na our mouth dey send our family members to early grave