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Inter Miami Celebrate With Cheeky Tweet After Winning Lionel Messi Transfer Battle

Inter Miami teased fans on Wednesday with a cheeky tweet about the imminent arrival of Lionel Messi. It came minutes after Messi had confirmed his move to MLS.

Robert Summerscales

Inter Miami Celebrate With Cheeky Tweet After Winning Lionel Messi Transfer Battle
Inter Miami Celebrate With Cheeky Tweet After Winning Lionel Messi Transfer Battle /

Inter Miami teased fans on Wednesday by publishing a cheeky tweet about the imminent arrival of Lionel Messi.

It was posted minutes after Messi had confirmed in an interview with SPORT and Mundo Deportivo that he will be joining the Fort Lauderdale outfit this summer.

Messi had previously been linked with a return to former club Barcelona, while a mega-money move to Saudi Arabia with Al-Hilal was also said to be a possibility.

Miami's social media team gleefully mocked these reports in a video montage featuring multiple old headlines from Messi's now-concluded transfer saga.

One frame of the video featured a tweet by The Athletic from March, which read: "Lionel Messi? In #MLS? The idea seems far-fetched."

The video, which did not include a caption, received over 200,000 likes and retweets within an hour, making it Inter Miami's most popular post ever on Twitter.

Inter Miami fans pictured at DRV PNK Stadium during an MLS game in 2021
Inter Miami fans will soon be flocking to DRV PNK Stadium to see Lionel Messi in the flesh :: IMAGO/ZUMA Wire/Charles Trainor Jr
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Robert Summerscales
ROBERT SUMMERSCALES

Robert Summerscales launched FanNation Futbol in February 2022. Rob is a British journalist who previously spent two years on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London, having earlier served as editor of CaughtOffside.com. He has been to the last two FIFA Men's World Cups, in Russia and Qatar, and is looking forward to completing his hat-trick in North America in 2026.