At around noon Paris time, came the news that had been widely expected since last Thursday and yet still feels incredible. After 21 years at Barcelona, Lionel Messi will join Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year deal worth around a reported $41 million per year. He'll be presented Wednesday to officially kick off an extraordinary and unexpected chapter. What even late last week had still seemed as though it may be a negotiating tactic from Barcelona turns out to have been absolutely what it looked like at face value: An expression of the almost incalculable mismanagement of Barça's finances over the past few years.
What Messi Joining PSG Means for the Club and Barcelona in the Grand Scheme
