Lionel Messi admits he leaves PSG with some regret.

Messi is joining Inter Miami as he comes off contract this month. The Argentine chose Inter Miami ahead of a return to Barcelona.

He told Bein Sport: "I came to Paris because I liked the club, because I had friends and many well-known people in the locker room, teammates or some who had already had been.

"It seemed to me that, beyond what the club was, it was going to have a much simpler adaptation than other teams I could have gone to, so that's a bit why I decided to go to the club.

"The truth was that it was a very difficult adaptation, much more than I expected. Beyond that we had well-known people in the locker room and had a relationship with them, adaptation to a new change was difficult. I was late, I didn't have a preseason. I had to adapt to a difficult new city for my family and myself ... It was difficult.

"I think the reception was very nice at the beginning. Later, people started treating me differently, a part of the PSG support, the rest and most of them kept treating me like at the beginning. There was a break with the PSG fans. It was not my intention, much less generate that break. It also happened with Neymar or Mbappé previously. I stay with all the people who did respect me as I always respected everyone since I arrived. It was an anecdote."