Top Saudi Club Offers Lionel Messi €88million per Season Salary to Leave PSG in the Summer

• Al-Ittihad FC have made a tempting offer to sign Lionel Messi when his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expires
• The 35-year-old forward will become a free agent in the summer when his current PSG contract expires in June
• PSG are offering Messi a contract extension as negotiations have been ongoing between the forward and the club

Al-Ittihad FC has offered to make Lionel Messi the highest-paid footballer on the planet if he decides to join the Saudi Arabian top club in the summer.

Messi’s future has been up in the air recently as the 35-year-old is yet to commit to a new deal with Paris Saint-Germain with his current contract set to expire in June.

According to PSG Talk, Al-Ittihad FC is willing to offer Messi an €88 million per season salary on a two-year contract, making him the highest-paid player in football history.

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Messi’s long-term rival Cristiano Ronaldo currently has the biggest contract in world football at the moment after the Portuguese penned a whopping €200 million contract with Al-Nassr.

Barcelona and Inter Miami are also two of the other clubs interested in signing Messi if the Argentine decides to leave PSG at the end of the season.

Threats made against Lionel Messi

Meanwhile, Lionel Messi has received threats and gunfire at the family-run supermarket in Rosario, Argentina, where he was born and raised, Daily Post reports.

The attackers left a note saying, "Messi, we're waiting for you," even though the Argentina international was not present during the attack.

It's said the gunmen were two in number and came on a motorcycle. They fired shots but nobody was injured during the incident at the supermarket, owned by Messi’s wife’s family, Antonella Roccuzzo.

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Messi gifts gold iPhone 14s to Argentina squad

Earlier, Sports Brief reported Paris Saint-Germain talisman Lionel Messi will gift an impressive 35 gold-plated iPhone 14s to all the Argentina players and staff who won the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The genius forward spearheaded his country's third world title, notching seven goals, including a brace in what is probably the greatest World Cup final against France.

He also scooped the Golden Ball prize at the quadrennial tournament, becoming the only player in the history of the competition to be the Most Valuable Player twice.