Barcelona have three players blocking Lionel Messi return with PSG …

Barcelona have three players currently blocking a potential return for Lionel Messi, according to reports. The PSG star has been linked with a move back to the Nou Camp for some time now, with cries for a Hollywood homecoming growing louder in the wake of his old side’s failure to get out o the Champions League group stages. However, while the 35-year-old is open to returning to La Liga, there’s still no guarantee it will happen.Barcelona had no choice but to let Messi go for free in 2021, having been unable to come up with the finances required to keep their idol at the Nou Camp for the rest of his career.The forward is now in his second season at PSG, where he’s dazzling alongside Neymar and Kylian Mbappe with 10 goals to his name this season already.But, according to the Daily Mail, Messi is open to a sensational move back to Barcelona come the end of the campaign.The veteran’s family still miss living in the city, regardless of how nice Paris is, and it’s said they’d ‘welcome’ the chance to return to Catalonia after two years away.And Messi could also return for financial reasons, knowing a move back to Barcelona would be ‘lucrative’ for himself due to the money he’d receive in wages and marketing.Want the latest football news? Join our brand new Facebook group by clicking here Barcelona saw Lionel Messi leave for PSG back in the summer transfer window of 2021 (Image: GETTY) Barcelona trio Jordi Alba, Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets are blocking Lionel Messi return (Image: GETTY) Barcelona were successful during Lionel Messi’s stint at the club (Image: GETTY)Speaking recently, meanwhile, ESPN pundit Steve Nicol urged Messi against returning to Barcelona – citing Cristiano Ronaldo as a reason why.Ronaldo moved back to Manchester United last August but has been unable to bring the glory days back to Old Trafford in the time since.And Nicol said: “You always think you can go back somewhere and it will just click and it will be like old times.”Unfortunately, the number of times that a player has tried that, and you’ve just got to look at Ronaldo, a number of times players have tried that and it hasn’t worked out. Barcelona icon Lionel Messi is open to returning from PSG (Image: GETTY)’I’m trying to think off the top of my head one that did work out, and I can’t come up with any. So if I’m Messi, just leave it the way it is.”Ian Rush, there’s one. Well the difference is, Rushy was 28 I think when he came back [to Liverpool], it’s a little different from being 35, 36.”So no, I think Messi should leave everything he did at Barcelona the way it is and don’t go back and spoil it.’Because for me Ronaldo’s spoiled a little bit of his legacy. The fact is he’s sitting on his backside watching. People are going to remember that.”