Barcelona breakout star Ronald Araujo is thrilled to welcome the Argentine superstar Lionel Messi if the World Cup winner makes a comeback to the club.
Lionel Messi will be out of contract with PSG in June as the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner is not interested to extend his contract with the French Champions which opens a potential move back to Barcelona.
🚨🚨🚨🚨| Leo Messi does NOT currently favor extending his contract at PSG, even if the option is NOT ruled out. For Neymar, PSG have decided and will try to sell the Brazilian this summer. 🇦🇷🇧🇷 [@Santi_J_FM] pic.twitter.com/b6SyARVLlt
— PSG Report (@PSG_Report) February 13, 2023
Many Blaugrana fans as well as the players are super excited about the news of homecoming for the greatest player of all time and the 23-year-old Uruguyan is augmented talking about him.
Ronald Araujo was signed by Barcelona in the summer of 2018 from the Uruguayan club Boston River and played a brief time with Lionel Messi as a teammate.
The Uruguayan initially joined the Barcelona B team, but his impressive performances earned him a promotion to the first team in the 2019-20 season.
Ronald Araujo and Arnau Tenas will join Barca B in their promotion playoff. Riqui Puig or Ansu Fati wont. pic.twitter.com/NX9eN5dKoP
— Goal Digger (@GoalDiggerFCB) July 20, 2020
“Messi’s return? We’ll see, but I’d love it. Leo’s return will be very special.’- the 23-year-old told Gerard Romero’s Jijantes FC.
“He is the best player in the world and we will be happy if he can come back. If I was Mateu Alemany [Barca’s director of football], I would sign Rodrigo Bentancur and Leo Messi.”- Araujo further added.
Araujo: "Messi returning to Barcelona? He is a player we all want. He's the best player in the world, and if we have him in the team it would be tremendous. I don't know what will happen, but we would love to have him back." pic.twitter.com/rMUn4ekhuu
— Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) February 13, 2023
Lionel Messi is the greatest player Blaugrana ever has as the little magician holds numerous records with the club and is arguably the most loved player among the fans.
Messi is the All-time top scorer for Barcelona after scoring 672 goals in 778 appearances and also holds the record for most goals in a calendar year with 91 goals in 69 games in 2012, breaking Gerd Muller’s previous record of 85 goals in 60 games.
Messi has won the Ballon d’Or award 7 times which is the most by any player in the history of the game and also registered 36 hat-tricks in La Liga during his career at Barcelona.
Lionel Messi equals Barcelona's all-time appearance record! 🙌
7️⃣6️⃣7️⃣ Games
6️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ Goals
3️⃣6️⃣ Trophies pic.twitter.com/F8aMJpRcos— GOAL (@goal) March 15, 2021
It will be interesting to see how Messi reacts to the rumor of him joining his favorite place once again and the fans will desperately want their main man back.
