Joan Laporta: I hope Messi's chapter at Barça isn't over

Before the Clasico that Barcelona played in Las Vegas, ESPN published an interview in which their president Joan Laporta spoke to the journalist Caro de la Salas about the topic of Lionel Messi among others. In the interview Laporta expressed his desire that the club’s link with Messi has not finished for good.

“I would hope that the Messi chapter isn’t over. I think it’s our responsibility to try to find a moment to fix that chapter, which is still open and hasn’t closed, so it turns out like it should have, and that it has a more beautiful ending,” explained the president.

“As president of Barca, I did what I had to do. But also as president of Barca, and on a personal level, I think I owe him.”