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Lionel Messi’s agents deny reports star will become Inter Miami player-owner
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Lionel Messi will reportedly acquire 35% of shares in Inter Miami and then join the MLS club when his contract with Paris Saint-Germain ends next year. The report from DirecTV Sports Argentina correspondent Alex Canda...
Lionel Messi earned $122m last year. He still felt the need to take Saudi money
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Less than a year after signing with Paris Saint-Germain – one of Qatar’s most prominent sportswashing projects – Lionel Messi is now the face of yet another oppressive Middle Eastern monarchy. The Argentinian was unve...
Lionel Messi and Argentina look in harmony with World Cup dream alive
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Argentina’s last home game before the World Cup turned into an unexpected love-in at La Bombonera on Friday. The penultimate qualifier for the already qualified nation (they play Ecuador away in their last fixture) be...
Lionel Messi one of four PSG players to test positive for Covid after winter break
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Lionel Messi is among four Paris Saint-Germain players who have tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from the winter break. Juan Bernat, Sergio Rico and Nathan Bitumazala, as well as one member of staff, are a...
Lionel Messi is well past his best but this seventh Ballon d’Or feels right
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And so it was Lionel Messi again, for the seventh time and, barring the most extraordinary of all career finales at the World Cup in Qatar, surely the last. Whatever the idiosyncrasies of the Ballon d’Or, Messi’s exce...
Lionel Blair: a showbiz phenomenon with all the right moves
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Lionel Blair, who has died aged 92, was that modern phenomenon: the all-round entertainer. That meant he might turn up as a stage or film actor, choreographer or star performer on a TV show such as Give Us a Clue. But...
Lionel Blair: veteran actor, dancer and entertainer dies aged 92
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Lionel Blair, the veteran actor, dancer and entertainer, has died at the age of 92, his agent has said. Born Henry Lionel Ogus, he grew up in Stamford Hill, north London after his family moved from Canada, worked on t...
Lionel Messi’s Panenka wins it for PSG after RB Leipzig threaten upset
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It might sound strange, but despite scoring two goals and winning the game for Paris Saint-Germain with an outrageous Panenka, Lionel Messi did not really have a very good game. Still, nobody at a festive Parc des Pri...
To be truly British, the country needs to stay largely white. Really, Lionel Shriver?
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‘They have seen the passing of the American Indian and the buffalo; and now they query as to how long the Anglo-Saxon may be able to survive.” So wrote William Ripley in an essay for the Atlantic Monthly in 1908. Ripl...
Lionel Messi makes PSG debut at Reims but Kylian Mbappé steals show
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Now it is real. Lionel Messi played his first club match as a Not Barcelona player, entering as a 66th minute substitute for Paris Saint-Germain, who won at Reims thanks to Kylian Mbappé. PSG are adamant the pair will...
Football transfer rumours: Cristiano Ronaldo to join Lionel Messi at PSG?
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It has long been established that Lionel Messi is the tit to Cristiano Ronaldo’s tat. So a week dominated by news of the Argentinian’s arrival at Paris Saint-Germain was always going to trigger a reaction and, sure en...
Lionel Messi heads to Paris to seal PSG move after agreeing two-year contract
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Lionel Messi has agreed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain and boarded a plane to France on Tuesday afternoon to complete the transfer. The deal includes an option to extend by a year and gives the forward a...
Lionel Messi heading to Paris to seal PSG move after agreeing two-year contract
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Lionel Messi has agreed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain and is due to fly to France to complete the transfer. The deal includes an option to extend by a year and gives the forward a net salary of about €3...
Bye bye Barça: Lionel Messi has left the building – Football Weekly
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Max Rushden is joined by Natasha Henry, Barry Glendenning, Sid Lowe and Ed Aarons to discuss Lionel Messi’s tearful departure from Barcelona How to listen to podcasts: everyt...
‘I wanted to stay’: Lionel Messi tearful at Barcelona exit as free transfer looms
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An emotional Lionel Messi has revealed he expected to extend his stay at Barcelona, but is now a free agent after financial issues at the Catalan club left them unable to pay the Argentinian’s wages. It was announced...
Lionel Messi leaves with Barcelona in financial abyss … and it is not over yet
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“I don’t want to create false hopes,” Joan Laporta said, but that was all they had left. Barcelona’s president had been explaining the reasons why they could no longer keep Lionel Messi, offering a portrait of bankrup...