US EditionLionel Messi to be handed mega-project offer
Newell's Old Boys plan extensive upgrades to stadium and training facilities, involving local authorities to create a competitive environment aimed at Messi's return in 2027.
- On Feb 4, 2026, Newell's Old Boys confirmed they are working on a project to entice Lionel Messi to play for the club in the first half of 2027, Juan Manuel Medina said.
- The idea began to take shape in 2024, driven by Ignacio Boero, Newell's president who won the December 2025 elections, turning it into a long-term project.
- The Marcelo Bielsa Stadium has recently been modernized, while the Jorge B. Griffa training complex has seen improvements as part of Newell's plan to enhance infrastructure, sporting environment, and institutional conditions.
- Informal talks have taken place with Messi's inner circle, but there has been no concrete progress and Messi remains contracted to Inter Miami through the end of 2028.
- The project involves Rosario, Argentina, and Argentine football, aiming to reshape the sport and view Messi's return as the ideal career end, according to the club.
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The Argentine club Newell's Old Boys, where Leo Messi took his first steps as a footballer when he was still a child, will seek to repatriate the current Inter Miami player in 2027, according to his first vice president, Juan Manuel Medina, to the local press. "We are working on Leo playing in Newell's in the first semester of 2027, but for now there is nothing more than that," Medina said in dialogue with the television channel All News.Juan Ma…
The vice-president of the Newells Old Boys in Rosario suggested that Lionel Messi could make his big comeback, in a year's time.
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