Lionel Messi is part of PSG’s recovery plan for next season

After suffering a walloping at the hands of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain are looking for a recovery plan to strengthen their team. While they enjoyed a decent run in the Champions League — beating both Barcelona and Bayern Munich — they proved to be levels below the Citizens, who dominated them in a lesson of Cruyffian Total Football in the course of two legs.

According to Le Parisien, PSG have several plans in the work, with a world-star, a midfielder, and a right-back being their priority. Club president, Naisser Al-Khelaifi seems stuck on his idea that world-stars are a necessity, even after having been defeated by a team comprised of excellent individuals all around in Manchester City; a team that needs no reliance on any single star. Accordingly, Al-Khelaifi has his sights set on the world’s best footballer to strengthen his side.

The French club are very well funded by Qatar Sports Investments. They are looking to use their resource in order to lure in Lionel Messi. The Argentine is in their scopes, as the upper echelons in PSG believe he is the last piece of the puzzle in what is shaping up to be a pretty decent sports project.

Khelaifi will be hoping to convince the Argentinian of Les Rouges et Bleu’s sporting project. They will also hope to reunite Messi with his best-friend Neymar Jr.. In addition, with PSG crashing out of the Champions League yet again, the management believes that it is high-time to take a strong step towards contention by acquiring a player of Messi’s calibre.