Overview
- Messi posted photos and a message on Instagram after a late-night visit to the Camp Nou, calling it a place he misses deeply.
- He wrote that he hopes to return someday not only to say goodbye as a player, using the phrase he never could do so.
- The images show the stadium mid-remodel and depict Messi alone on the pitch without club officials present.
- FC Barcelona and Messi have issued no further statements on the visit or any reconciliation with Joan Laporta, who was reported to be in Vigo at the time.
- Messi is currently contracted to Inter Miami after a recent renewal, and Laporta has previously suggested a tribute match for Messi to inaugurate the remodeled stadium when it fully reopens.