By Sergio Silva
06 Nov 2023, 18:29 PM EST
Inter Miami wants to put together a competitive team for the next Major League Soccer season and this Monday the name of a reinforcement that Lionel Messi would like to add for 2024 was announced. This is nothing more and nothing less than another former teammate of the Argentine star at FC Barcelona: Ivan Rakitic.
According to a report from El Gol Digital, the Croatian midfielder would be liked by the recent winner of the Ballon d’Or award (eighth in his tally) who would have already made the request to the Inter Miami board, headed by David Beckham, to Let the arrival of the player who currently plays for Sevilla in the Spanish LaLiga make everything possible.
Ivan Rakitic, 35, ends his contract with the Andalusian team at the end of this season and according to the portal that revealed the information The Croatian would not be in Sevilla’s plans for 2024. It is speculated that Sevilla proposed a salary reduction of up to 85 percent of his current salary.
This is not the first time that Ivan Rakitic flirts with the idea of joining Inter Miami. In the 2020-2021 season, when the team started in the MLS, the Croatian midfielder joked about the possibility of joining the team chaired by David Beckham, which in less than two years since its founding has already added a Leagues title to its record. Cup (2023) won by Lionel Messi.
“Let’s see, maybe David Beckham will call me”Rakitic commented on that occasion, who was back at Sevilla, after a successful time at FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2020 in which he won LaLiga four times, the Copa del Rey four times and the Spanish Super Cup twice.
A “branch” of FC Barcelona in the MLS
Since the arrival of Lionel Messi to Inter Miami in mid-2023, the Major League Soccer team has become a kind of branch of FC Barcelona with the additions of other players with a Barça past such as Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.
However, that brotherhood is very close to increasing after it was recently announced that the Miami team had already finished defining all the details for the arrival starting in January of the Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, a friend of Messi and who also shared with the three in the Catalan team.
If Ivan Rakitic were to arrive, the representation of players with a past at FC Barcelona would increase and the presence of stars within the MLS would continue to grow, in which they also stand out. the Italians Lorenzo Insigne (Toronto FC) and Giorgio Chiellini (Los Angeles FC), the Swiss Xherdan Shaqiri (Chicago Fire) and until recently the Mexican Javier “Chicharito” Hernández (Los Angeles Galaxy).
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