Lionel Messi is now the highest paid player in the world... He is now officially the boss...Messi would be earning over 11 million naira per day. ''All this money they are sharing, Daris God ooo"

Lionel Messi has agreed a new contract at Barcelona with the Argentina superstar set to become the world's highest-paid player on £16.3million a year. 

The player’s father Jorge met club officials Javier Faus and Antoni Rossich last week and closed what is the seventh new deal in 11 years for the four-time Ballon d’Or winner. 

Messi will be 27 in June and the new deal is not expected to extend his existing contract length taking him to 2018.

But his earnings have been boosted to put him ahead of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who earns £15m before bonuses. 

Wayne Rooney, the highest-paid player in England, is on £15.6m a year (£300,000 a week).

In effect Messi will earn £16.3m next season but if he wins the Champions League the appropriate bonus will be added and the sum total will become his new basic pay level the following season.

Messi’s £250m buy-out clause will remain the same leaving the door open for Manchester City or Paris Saint-Germain to make a bid, though the rigours of Financial Fair Play surely rule out such a move for either club.