Mundo Deportivo: Al-Hilal have no verbal agreements with footballer Lionel Messi
The Saudi authorities took part in the transfer of the Argentine PSG striker Lionel Messi to Al-Hilal. Details of the negotiations appeared on the Mundo Deportivo website.
According to the source, the transfer is under control at the state level. The club is trying to do everything possible to sign the 35-year-old footballer, but there are no agreements, including verbal ones, with him.
On May 8, it became known that Messi would move to Al-Hilal only if he failed to make a transfer to Barcelona. At the same time, information appeared a day later that the striker agreed to move to a club from Saudi Arabia in the 2023/2024 season. It was clarified that the deal was closed, and Messi received a huge contract.
Messi signed a contract with PSG in August 2021, it runs until June 2023 with the option of a one-season extension. Prior to that, the striker played for Barcelona throughout his career, in which he won the Spanish championship ten times and won the Champions League four times.
Source: Lenta
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