Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner Don Garber has claimed Lionel Messi‘s move to the league will be bigger than anything an athlete has done in any sport.
The Argentina international, whose contract at PSG will expire this June, is subject to interest from several clubs, including MLS side Inter Miami.
Messi’s former side Barcelona are also keen to bring him back to Camp Nou, but their financial limitations could hamper them from completing a deal.
As such, there is a fair chance he will move stateside this summer, with Inter Miami desperate for his signature.
And now in their bid to bring him to America this summer, the league’s commission Don Garber has claimed that they will do everything possible to help Inter Miami CF sign the 35-year-old World Cup winner.
Speaking in a recent meeting with the Associated Press Sports Editors, Garber said via GOAL:
“There isn’t a league that wouldn’t like to have Lionel Messi in their league. There are a lot of dynamics that are going on there. He’s got a lot of things to think about in terms of where he wants to continue his career. I can tell you that we would love him in Major League Soccer.”
“We will work very hard with Miami, who is the team that is hoping to be able to sign him, to come up with a program for him that will allow him to establish a legacy that I think could be unprecedented globally, let alone unprecedented here in our country because I think of him as someone who crosses so many barriers that he can be bigger than any athlete of any sport that has ever played here in the United States. We have been pretty effective at coming up with clever ways to sign players for our clubs in the right market. It’s very real-time, and I hope that we’re able to get in front of the discussion and hopefully bring something over the finish line.”
