Lionel Messi has signed a new three-year deal to remain with Barcelona until 2021. Shaka Hislop feels Lionel Messi's new Barcelona contract is perfect for the continued rivalry with Ronaldo. Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi has agreed to a 3-year contract, committing his future to Barca through 2021. Joan Laporta claims there was only ever one moment that he genuinely feared Lionel Messi would leave Barcelona. It was, Laporta thinks, around 2006, although it could have been earlier, and Inter were prepared to pay the Argentinian forward's €150m buyout clause. Laporta, then Barca club president, went to Messi's father Jorge and told him: "He'll be happy here, he'll get glory; there, he'll only win financially." "Your son is destined to be the greatest in history," he said, "and here he'll...
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