LAFC, the richest team in MLS: could they buy Lionel Messi?

LAFC completed a good regular season and make it to the playoffs zone. The team coached by Bob Bradley finished sixth on the Western Conference after earning 31 points on 21 matches played. The performed very good and have the principal candidate for the Golden Boot award on Diego Rossi, scorer of 13 goals so far.

LAFC has a lot of top talented players worth a fortune. To start, Rossi itself costs more than $20 million, and he is the most valuated player of the team and even of the whole MLS. The second most expensive player of the team and also of the league is Carlos Vela, the Mexican who has a value of $18 million.

There is just one more player who is in the list of the top 10 most valuated players from the MLS at LAFC, and he is Brian Rodríguez, the Uruguayan worth $11 million. Just adding these three players and is being sold, LAFC could earn the fortune of almost $50 million, a huge amount of money for three players.

There are also some other players who are well valuated, as Mark-Anthony Kaye, Latif Blessing or Eduard Atuesta. Just to compare, if LAFC sells their whole squad they’ll very near of buying Lionel Messi, who, according to specialized website Transfermarkt, has a reported value of $110 million.