Messi: I would like to play at Newell's for six months LaLiga - Barcelona Boyhood team may yet receive the striker

No other club in Europe will have the privilege of signing Lionel Messi and the Barcelona talisman only has eyes on moving back to Argentina.

Although there are no certainties that he will return to his homeland to see out his career, Messi still holds out hope of one day appearing for boyhood team Newell's Old Boys.

"I am more and more clear that, in Europe, Barcelona is going to be my only home," said the forward on Argentine TV program Pasion por el Futbol.

"I always said that I wanted to play someday in Argentina. I don't know if it will happen, but I have it in mind.

"It would be Newell's, nothing more. I'd like to do that for at least six months, but you never know what is going to happen."

Argentine fans will be focused on the summer World Cup before that though, and the Albiceleste captain discussed why he never even considered representing Spain, despite moving there as a teenager.

"The other day I was talking to a friend and he said to me: 'Look, if you had stayed with Spain, you would be world champion'," recalled Messi.

"But it wouldn't have been the same. Obviously, it never crossed my mind at any time. Being a champion with Argentina would be special."

Messi also opened up on how fame affects his lifestyle, forcing him to miss out on the occasional activity that many take for granted.

"I am grateful for the treatment people give me, but it is true that sometimes I would like to go unnoticed," he noted. "More than anything when I'm with my family, I'd like to hang out with them normally.

"I like to buy clothes, but I don't like to go [to the shops]. I buy a lot online. When I try to go to a shopping mall or walk somewhere, I always go fast, so as not to stop. I go, I enter the premises, I do what I have to do and I go out.

"And when I go with [wife Antonella Roccuzzo] or with the kids, you cannot [stop]. And if you start to stop, you cannot leave. Then you have to duck your head."