“What brings me to Inter Miami is the desire to compete, win titles, to write the pages in the club’s history,” De Paul said in a statement.

Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami team-mate Jordi Alba have been given one-match bans for skipping Major League Soccer's All-Star game earlier this week.

The 38-year-old Messi is the reigning MLS MVP and the biggest star not only in MLS, but in the sport of soccer as a whole.