Messi’s Exit Rumors Could Be A Ploy To Force The MLS To Change Its Spending Rules – Gomez

Former MLS and USMNT star Herculez Gomez has come out to react to speculations that Messi is considering MLS exit. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even if the odds are still currently low as far as a departure is concerned, Messi leaving Inter Miami would definitely ring negative alarm bells for the league.

Gomez, however, added that the current rumors could be an attempted power-play by Messi to get the league to change its spending rules going forward.

His words, “House of cards crumbling down.

Devastating for MLS, which has all the chips in on Lionel Messi. You made him the highest paid player in the history of MLS, you gave him MLS season pass subscription shares, you gave him future stock in Inter Miami. You essentially brought him in as an owner so it would be a devastating blow for your biggest, marquee player – that you ever have, that you may ever have.

But if what if this is a power play? What if this is Messi saying ‘It’s not just about the money for me because what I just did at this Club World Cup, what I just experienced at this Club World Cup doesn’t satisfy me. I want to win, I want to make sure where I am isn’t a situation where I’m being worse of for it.’

We already know he’s basically an owner in MLS, what if this is his power play of enacting change? And by change I mean the mechanisms, the spend and directly everything around him. I’m sure going out the way he did against PSG didn’t sit well with him and he knows that he, and the other nearing 40 players on his team, were embarrassed, and he wants more.”

WOW.

Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards and a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.

Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times.

With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).

He also has the most international goals by a South American male (103). Messi has scored over 800 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).