Barcelona will name three demands from Lionel Messi, if the World Cup champions want to bring Camp Nou back this summer.
Messi scored his 800th career goal on Thursday night, in an emotional return to Argentina for the first time since celebrating his World Cup success.
Where he talks about the next steps in his career is still up for debate, with his future at Paris Saint-Germain still uncertain at the moment.
When his contract at the Parc des Princes ends in June, some fans will be displeased with his anti-French exhortations while he is on international duty.
Fans of the Ligue 1 leaders were already unhappy with the 35-year-old after he was knocked out of the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich recently. However, the club want to keep him and have begun contract negotiations, but the striker has yet to reach an agreement with the club.
He has also been linked with Inter Miami in the MLS or a possible law change meeting as Cristiano Ronaldo's rival in Saudi Arabia, while Barca also want to see him again.
According to Mundo Deportivo, the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner will have to make it clear he wants to return, accept a lesser role in the team and take a pay cut, all in order to return to the Camp Nou.
Messi and Xavi will reunite as players and coaches. Image:
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Messi and Barcelona president Joan Laporta are said to not have a good relationship with each other so the club's leadership wants the player to make it clear that he wants to play there. That information may have to come from Xavi, who remains good friends with the striker after years of playing and winning together.
The striker will not regain the captaincy if he returns, with Robert Lewandowski, Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Ronald Araujo now the leaders in the dressing room.
And his pay cut could be the biggest obstacle to Messi's return, given the club's notorious financial problems in recent years.
Finances could also be why PSG won't feel ashamed to lose him, as they continue to be threatened with FFP violations.
Messi's choice of club could still be influenced by any charges against Barca, following allegations of corruption in Spain.
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