Lionel Messi will be offered £500,000-a-week to stay at Barcelona

Striker’s £80m bonus to be funded by selling the Camp Nou naming rights

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Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi 
(Image credit: David Ramos/Getty Images)

It’s amazing what a hat-trick can do for a player’s career. Last month The Sun reported that Lionel Messi was being linked with a £357million move to Manchester City, but according to the Daily Mail the Argentine striker is “set to sign a record-breaking new contract with an £80m bonus”.

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