💣🚨 BREAKING: Xavi Hernandez: "Leo Messi's signing to Barça in 2023 was DONE after the World Cup. "Laporta isn’t telling the truth. Leo was already signed. In January 2023, after he became world champion, we got in touch and he told me he was excited about returning, and I saw it happening. We talked until March, and I told him: ‘When you give me the OK, I’ll tell the president,’ "Laporta started negotiating the contract with Leo’s father, and we had the green light from La Liga, but it was Laporta who ended up pulling everything back. "Laporta told me, literally, that if Leo returned they would make war against him and he couldn’t allow that. And then suddenly Leo stopped answering my calls because from Laporta's side they had told him it couldn’t happen. "I called his father and said, ‘It can’t be, Jorge,’ and he told me, ‘Talk to the president.’ I insisted that we had been talking with Leo for five months, that everything was done, that from a football point of view there were no doubts and economically we were going to move to Montjuïc and do a ‘last dance’ like Jordan’s, everything was prepared. "I was dying for Messi to come back so I could coach him, but they turned us against each other.” @LaVanguardia -