Barcelona and Lionel Messi are treading carefully over new contract talks.

Both parties are keen to upgrade the Argentine superstar's current deal, which has become an issue since Neymar's massive pay-packet was made public.

AS says, however, there won't be any quickfire agreement, with both the club and Messi's camp flirting with tax investigation, they do not want to make any slips in negotiations.

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