Football Soccer - Athletic Bilbao v Barcelona in King's Cup soccer match- San Mames stadium, Bilbao, Spain - 5/1/17 Barcelona's Lionel Messi prepares to take a corner. REUTERS/Vincent West
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's hopes of offering talisman and all-time top scorer Lionel Messi an improved contract face a stumbling block because of the expenditure caps imposed by La Liga, the Spanish champions' CEO Oscar Grau said on Wednesday.
While Messi's feted strike partners Luis Suarez and Neymar have each signed new deals until 2021, the Argentine maestro's contract runs out on June 30 2018, giving Barca a window of 18 months to prevent him leaving the club for free.
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