Barcelona ready to offer a new contract to Lionel Messi | Football News

Barcelona's president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, said he was determined to ensure that Lionel Messi remains forever a "man of a club" and be ready to offer him a new contract.

Messi, who joined Barcelona at the age of 13, signed a new four-year contract at Camp Nou in November 2017, but Bartomeu says the club is already seeking to extend the deal.

The 31-year-old is in a sensational form this season, scoring 42 goals in 39 games. Bartomeu wants Messi to be tied to Barcelona, ​​even after hanging up.

"We would like to renew his contract, that is the idea.He is young – you see it well – and he still has two years of contract," he said. ESPN.

"He is constantly improving, always innovating.I think he still has many years ahead of him and that in the coming months we will sit with him so that he still has a lot of Years in Barcelona.

"Messi is a man from a club.It's more than what he does on the field.His relationship with Barca will last forever.I'm using the example of Pelé , who was always in Santos.We want Messi to be always in Barca, that it is playing or related to the club.

"We want him to have a very long career so he can continue to enjoy it, Lionel has managed to break the boundaries, everyone admires him and he is applauded in other stadiums by rival fans." "

Messi has won nine league titles, four leagues of champions and six crowns of the Copa del Rey, with eight points ahead of Barcelona in the league and in another final of the national cup this season. They are also ready to face Manchester United in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.