Jonathan WILSON TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
When Paris Saint-Germain signed Lionel Messi, what did they expect? Of course there were all the benefits for their brand, and to land a player widely accepted as one of the best in history emphasised their status. The fact that the financial issues that meant Barcelona had to release him were in part provoked by the club’s panicked reaction to PSG’s audacious signing of Neymar can only have made his arrival sweeter: a vindication of that €222 million outlay in 2017.
