Lewandowski wishes to stand by Messi
In an interview with Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo on April 11, Lewandowski said: "I don't know what will happen in the future, but hopefully I can play with Messi in the 2023-2024 season. Messi belongs to Barca and It would be great if he came back here."
According to IFFHS, there are 24 players who have scored 500 or more goals in their professional careers at club and national level, of which five are playing Cristiano Ronaldo 834 goals, Messi 804, Lewandowski 593, Zlatan Ibrahimovic 561 and Luis Suarez 529 Messi has played with Ibrahiovic and Suarez, and he will play next to Lewandowski if he returns to Barca in the summer of 2023. Meanwhile, Ronaldo has never been a teammate of the four players above.
Since the beginning of the season, Messi has scored 26 goals and assisted 21 times in 41 games for PSG and Argentina. The 36-year-old superstar is the only player to score and assist more than 20 times this season. In Ligue 1, he also scored 14 goals and assisted 14 times, according to Whoscored statistics for an average score of 8.44, the highest in Europe's top five leagues.
However, the future of Messi and PSG is at a dead end, although his contract will expire at the end of June 2023. The two sides have not reached an agreement on an extension, after the team was eliminated in the 1/8 round of the Champions League. Christophe Galtier's army has not yet secured the Ligue 1 title, when it is only six points above the second in the Lens group.
Messi once turned down a salary offer of $440 million per year from Al Hilal club in Saudi Arabia, because he wanted to continue playing at the top of Europe. If he leaves PSG, Messi can freely join Barca. Vice President Rafa Yuste also said that the team had negotiated with Messi's representative, but Barca needed to prepare financially to pay the Argentine superstar's salary.
Lewandowski has competed for the Golden Ball and FIFA The Best with Messi, in 2020 and 2021. The Polish striker has been honored by FIFA twice in these years, while Messi won the Golden Ball 2021 and The Best 2022. The 35-year-old striker left. Bayern to Barca summer 2022, summer 2022, signing a four-year contract. He has scored 27 goals in 36 club games this season.
