In any other season, Lionel Messi would have had to take charge of the tracks.
In any other season, the blue fans would have been mocking the stands of the Camp Nou, waving their white handkerchiefs to ask for replacement, as their team lost the Spanish title.
But this season, which lasted more than a year and left enthusiasts locked up thanks to the COVID-19 effect, Messi made the decision to take a position.
I’d been for months. First, due to a perceived lack of effort in the board component to seek to bring Neymar back, but more recently, when Real Madrid won the League in July, a frustrated Messi has obviously explained how he feels about the team.
“We didn’t need to finish the season like this, but it represents what the season was like,” movistar told station – (h/t Goal.com) after Barca was defeated by Osasuna at home in the penultimate game of the season. Array “We were a very irregular team, very weak and low intensity”.
The 8-2 humiliation in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals against Bayern Munich was the ultimate test of everything Messi had spent time worrying.
And now the reports have revealed that he’s fed up. That Messi is seriously thinking about leaving Barca.
The journalist Marcelo Bechler is the one who made the story known. He is the same guy who first announced that Neymar would join Paris Saint-Germain. It is intended as a trusted source to get around Barcelona.
His report for Esporte Interativo turned the world and, as his words were translated and examined, the message became clear: Messi needs to leave Barcelona. Not in 2021 when your contract expires. Right now.
Addressing this week’s B/R Football Ranks podcast, which is released Wednesday, Bechler explained: “At the beginning of the season, he said that the vital thing was not a great contract or money, but a forged project. And without titles and that defeats Bayern, he still has three or four years to play and he knows he can help Barca, but they can’t help him. “Messi thought that he and Barca were ‘one thing’, but now he thinks maybe he can be anything else without Barcelona. You can take another step and go out to win without Barcelona.
“He’s angry at the board and disappointed with the club and must leave now. Barca is pessimistic because it cannot offer a false assignment and cannot do much for them.
“It is very likely that you will leave Barcelona if there are any other projects, I do not know where or which club. It’s in this economy to pay 700 million euros, but I think Barca doesn’t need it here to be unhappy.” . After all. They gave them Messi, they don’t need him here as a prisoner.”
Every once in a while, there’s one who stops and leaves you perplexed.
Luis Figo moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid, David Beckham joined the MLS to signal for L.A. Galaxy and Neymar left Barca for Paris-Saint Germain.
Make no mistake: Messi leaving Barcelona for a European club would overshadow them all.
❗️ Messi has had enough. It will leave in 2021 if no radical adjustments are made. [face] https://t.co/YVG1f3kDK5
There were rumours about Messi’s resolve to leave before Bechler’s report, and Spanish radio station COPE reported that it would leave if the club did not restructure. But they announced he was going to leave in 2021, not now.
From the first news, Barcelona has retired its coach, Quique Setien, and will be replaced by Dutch coach Ronald Koeman overnight.
It is a step towards the pacification of Messi, who has never been a believer in Setien. But how many paintings remain to be made?
Barcelona has not won the Champions League since 2015 and finished the last crusade without a trophy in the primary for the first time in six years. Messi, 33, cannot face the truth that the elite of European competition had not won before his retirement.
Andy West is a commentator on LaLigaTV and wrote the e-book Lionel Messi and the Art of Living.
He told B/R: “Messi had already thought of leaving. At the beginning of his career, he was contemplating a primary offer from Inter Milan, and more recently he had serious difficulties in coming into contact with Luis Enrique at the beginning of his tenure as a coach at the Camp Nou.
“It peaked in early 2015 when Luis Enrique left Messi and Neymar on the bench for a match at Real Sociedad, as they had just returned from Christmas in South America. Barca lost the setting 1-0, Messi skipped the educational consultation open the next day for enthusiastic young people and maliciously following Chelsea on Instagram.
“It was a busy week, but reconciliation came with a poignant victory over Atletico Madrid and the two maintained a decent relationship after that.
“I think it would be perfectly understandable for Messi to decide to leave now. The club has a circus, and in recent years has been asked to do too much to cover the cracks.
Messi is fully aware of the poor condition of the team and club in general and believes his public warnings have been heeded.
Given the team’s ageing profile and the terrible monetary situation, it’s hard to see how Barca can fight for a primary trophy next season, and Messi will have to wonder if he’s in a position to waste one of the few years left. of his career. “
This would break the club of friends and make it much less difficult to sell suarez, Alba, Vidal, etc. That would be a huge wage burden. That would provide a path in the team for Coutinho, Griezmann and Dembélé.
Fan Omar Hawwash is editor-in-chief of The Barca’s Blaugranagram online page and discovers that it’s hard for Messi to just leave.
He’s been at the club since he was 12, when he signed a towel to verify that he was going to be incorporated. He played 731 games, scored 634 goals and produced 285 assists. He’s a club icon, a club legend.
Hawwash told B/R: “This is a club that helped exercise it and make it the player and guy we know him today. It’s not a simple selection for him, and frankly, after everything that’s happened. Catalans”, I don’t see him leave.
With the presidential election just around the corner (announced for March) and the delicate stage in Barcelona right now, you may see it from afar wondering if his long career would be at the club.
“If you leave? I think it would be a big blow for Barcelona, no doubt. Having built the equipment around him for years, it costs a lot to the “next Messi”, which is frankly a term that has been used a lot over the years.
Personally, I think Neymar turns out to be the Argentine’s herbal heir, but given his scenario with Paris Saint-Germain and his possible preference to remain one of his key players, Barcelona does a lot to convince him to return to the Catalan city. , not to mention the impression left by the Brazilian in Barca.”
Fans remain concerned about the way President Josep Bartomeu runs the club, and there have been threats of protests in the Barcelona area. Had it not been for the effect of COVID-19, the demonstrations would most likely have occurred some time ago.
There is a growing concern that Messi is thinking of a movement.
Fortunately for Barca fans, there are many realistic clues for Messi if you take the game seriously. And hopefully this is just a competitive position to make sure that its expensive Barcelona does not suddenly suffer a catastrophic collapse.
Barcelona says they’ve heard it needs to leave. But at the same time, Messi’s camp downplayed Bechler’s story.
It’s a financially confusing moment. Most clubs can’t even spend a hundred million euros on a big move: Messi has a termination clause of 700 million euros.
If he moved, it would be for less than that amount, given his age and his contract expires next year. This may be just an exclusive opportunity to recruit the player into the world. A genius in the box and the dream of a marketing director.
Manchester City already has it signed, and the link Txiki Begiristain / Ferran Soriano / Pep Guardiola Barca makes him an apparent candidate.
They may be able to locate the money, especially at a time when the regulations of money fair play are relaxed, but we have to be in mind that the club has been quite disciplined in terms of moving fees so far.
However, the City was ambitious enough to hire Guardiola; we can’t rule out that they would put pressure on Messi.
Then there’s the PSG, which has discovered the box to signal Neymar for 222 million euros and turns out to have the strength to do whatever it wants. Lately, however, they are looking to link Neymar and Kylian Mbappé to new contracts. Unless Neymar is part of an exchange agreement, that will be unlikely.
And then we have Inter Milan, which has been connected because of its wealthy owners, Suning Holdings, and the words of former President Massimo Moratti that they can get there.
“Now I’m just an Inter fan, so I don’t have any internal information,” Quotidiano Sportivo (h/t Goal.com) told the Italian newspaper. “That said, I know: Suning has everything it takes to bring Messi to Milan, in terms of resources and skills.”
The prospect of confronting him again with Cristiano Ronaldo would give Serie A another size. But Bechler explained in the B/R/s podcast that the Inter had no contact and that it is not likely to move.
One thing is for sure, for the first time, Messi becomes available. And if that’s the case, the greatest movement of all time may be imminent.
34 consecutive UCL points ?
Leverkusen any agreement that is finaled until August 28 Array.. 10 days from today