Lionel Messi’s silence over his future worries current employers Barcelona according to a report in today’s print edition of Italian daily newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
The Argentine national team player has under a year left to run on his contract with the Blaugrana club and he has a difficult relationship with Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
In order to sign him, Inter will need to create conditions to convince Messi to leave his comfort zone and in that regard there are few better placed that Inter to do exactly that in the eyes of the Milan based news outlet anyway.
Nobody at Inter wants to create any illusions and it could be the case that they wait until the Summer of 2021 to make their move when he will be a free agent rather than move for him now due to the fact he has a €700 million release clause.
This season Messi has made 43 appearances across all competitions to date, in which he has scored 31 goals and provided 26 assists for his teammates.