MADRID—Lionel Messi’s contract with Barcelona is coming to an end Wednesday with no news from the player or the club about his future. The expectation is that the 34-year-old Messi, who is playing with Argentina at the Copa America, will stay at the Catalan club. He reportedly had been close to reaching a deal to extend his contract for two more years. Messi’s future has been a mystery since he had his request to leave the club denied at the end of the 2019–20 season. He ended up staying and said he would reconsider his options when this season was over. A lot has changed since he announced he wanted to leave the club. That decision was made not long after the team’s embarrassing 8–2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, one of the worst defeats in the club’s and Messi’s history. But since then, …