Lionel Messi is actively considering a move to Saudi Arabia that would see him join Al-Hilal, the city rivals of Cristiano Ronaldo's Al-Nassr FC, when his Paris Saint-Germain contract expires this summer, a source familiar with negotiations has told ESPN.
Having opened talks with Messi and his advisors late last year, senior figures in the bid to take the 35-year-old to the Middle Eastern nation had initially believed they had no more than an outside chance of persuading the former Barcelona forward to follow Ronaldo to Riyadh.