A few hours before the presentation of Lionel Messi, Inter Miami confirmed the signing of the veteran Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets until the end of the 2025 North American League (MLS) season.
Busquets, 35 years old, committed to Inter for the same period of two and a half seasons as Messihis former teammate at Barcelona.
“This is a special opportunity that I am very excited to take advantage of. I am excited for the next step in my career with Inter Miami”Busquets said in the team’s official statement, which had already advanced this contract at the end of June.
The midfielder, world champion with Spain in 2010, could also be introduced to his new fans this Sunday at Messi’s big presentation event at Inter’s DRV PNK stadium.
Baptized as “The Unveil” (The Revelation) and broadcast worldwide on Apple TV +, the show will start at 6:30 p.m. local time (22:30 GMT) and will feature speeches by Messi and david beckhamco-owner of Inter, as well as musical performances.
inter miamilast in the current MLS season, hopes to redo the course with the arrival of Messi, Busquets and of some other of the renowned signings that he continues to negotiate, such as the ex-Barcelona player Jordi Alba.
“I was impressed by the Club when I came here with Barcelona last year (in pre-season) and now I am happy and ready to represent the Club.”Busquets said. “I can’t wait to help bring about the success this ambitious Club is working to achieve”.
“Since day one we have set the goal of bringing the best players in the world to Inter Miami. Sergio’s repertoire speaks for itself”said Jorge Mas, another of the franchise owners.
Despite the fact that he had the confidence of coach Xavi Hernández, Busquets announced in May that he was ending his 15-year career with Barcelona’s first team.
In that period he won nine titles in the Spanish league and three in the Champions League and formed a legendary midfield trio with Xavi himself and Andrés Iniesta.
The team that Inter Miami seeks to assemble
Inter Miami of the United States will present today the Argentine star Lionel Messi and will officially start the most important stage of its brief history, in which it will have the challenge of assembling a team at the height of the captain of the world champion National Team.
With Messi as the icing on the cake and with the arrival of Gerardo “Tata” Martino as coach, the institution that has former player David Beckham among its owners seeks to form a squad that will allow it to improve the bad football present, given that it ranks last in their zone of Major League Soccer (MLS) with only 18 points harvested in 22 games played so far in the competition.
In addition to the man from Rosario, Inter Miami brought in midfielder Sergio Busquets, his former teammate in Barcelona from Spain, and agreed to the arrival of forward Facundo Farías from Colón from Santa Fe.
However, the idea of the American team is to continue hiring stars that break the market, for which they are interested in adding the winger Jordi Alba, who has many chances of being reinforced, the defender Sergio Ramos and the attacker Eden Hazard, among others. .
In this way, “Tata” Martino could count on the following eleven: Drake Callender; DeAndre Yedlin, Sergio Ramos; Serhiy Kryvtsov, Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, David Ruiz; Benjamin Cremaschi or Facundo Farías, Lionel Messi, Eden Hazard and Josef Martínez.
Another dream for Inter Miami is the Uruguayan Luis Suárez and, despite the fact that he stated that he will continue in Gremio do Brasil, the intention of Messi’s new club is to tempt the forward to add him now to their ranks or, in case of not reaching an agreement , ensure your arrival for December of this year.
Source: Ambito
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