Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has some ideas for growing Major League Soccer, the league he recently signed on to play for through 2028 with Inter Miami.

“Every team should have the opportunity to bring in players and sign whoever each team wants without limitations or rules for players to bring them in,” Messi said in an interview, conducted in Spanish and released Monday, with NBC Nightly News, when asked what he would do if he was the league’s commissioner for a day.

Messi, who has not commented on the topic in the past, told NBC’s Tom Llamas that he believes soccer, and specifically MLS, can grow in the United States. However, he said the league needs to do away with its restrictive spending limitations.

“I don’t think that today all teams in the United States, all clubs, have the p

See Full Page