Former Spain coach Javier Clemente is convinced Lionel Messi will sign a new deal with Barcelona.

The Argentine great's current deal expires in June with doubts about how Barca will fund a new contract.

But Clemente told Sport: “I'm no economist but I think that Barcelona have carte blanche with the bank. In a few months they'll start getting a lot of income. They will do what they can to make him stay.

“I couldn't sign Messi, but a lot of clubs can pay his salary. But he's spent his whole life there and his family is very comfortable. I've been in Serbia, in Cameroon and in Libya. I've lived a lot and I see that he has a lot of ties to Barcelona.

"I don't see him learning French and in the Paris cold, to tell the truth. He'd play the same in Russia or wherever, I talk about the adaption off the pitch."