FC Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez has revealed when Lionel Messi will be making a decision on his future.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier let it slip this week that Messi will be playing his final game for the club on Saturday night.
The Argentine looks set to become a free agent when his contract with PSG expires at the end of the month, but it is not known where he will be playing next season.
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"I have already said many times, he has the doors open here, I am the coach and I know that he will help us if he decides to come, but in the end I think we have to leave him a little alone," Xavi told Mundo Deportivo.
"He ends the season there, he has a lot of respect for Paris Saint-Germain, he wants to finish in the best way, his contract ends and then he has earned all the right in the world to say where to go, where to end his career.
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"I think that he has football to continue at a high level and that if he comes to Barça, what most or all of the Catalans want, especially the coach, the doors are open, I am convinced that he is going to do well.
"He told me that next week he will make a decision and we have to leave him alone. In the end, if we talk about Leo every day, every day, I think he doesn't add up either. In the end he will decide next week and now there are 200 hypotheses. In the end, he will decide his future and here the doors are open, there is no more debate."
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