he did plenty enough. we wouldn't have been in a position to play semis/quarters/finals without him. not saying that it wouldn't have happened with another star player in the team instead of messi, but we achieved what we achieved with him. after xavi/iniesta left he was the primary playmaker and finisher of the team. do you want him to defend also? or stand in goal?
the bullshit of him keeping quiet or talking too much gets thrown in here all the time. people will always complain.
what he said was true and none of his business to give his own money to make signings. after all the money was there. we cashed in over 200m for neymar and splashed over 300m(nearly 400m?) for coutinho/griezmann/dembele. should messi have gifted the club 200-300m from his own salary so that bartomeu and co. have another go at the transfer market?
no football player does that and rightly so. grow up people
I didn't say he didn't earn his money. I said the opposite but he is complaining about the team not being ambitious or allegedly being unhappy because the club didn't buy Neymar back last summer.
Bar?a has made some bad mistakes or been unlucky but nobody can say they weren't ambitious.
The same way they took Suarez, the best player of Liverpool, with great success, they failed with Coutinho.
They, then, got unlucky with Demb?l? who is constantly injured. At the time, those were among the best available attacking players in the world.
Then, there is Griezmann. It was really a poor decision just only for the obvious problem of his position in the team. Still, it could be said it was showing ambition to take him.
There is also de Jong case. They showed ambition by paying over 80 M for him instead of going for Rabiot.
Financially speaking, those were all bad deals but it was undeniably showing sporting ambition.
So what Bar?a should have done to please Messi ? Real Madrid is showing it is not quite simple either to rebuild after they lost only Cristiano Ronaldo while you lost Xavi, Iniesta, Neymar, Alves.
Only Liverpool and Bayern seem to have done the right things. I'm not putting Manchester City with the two above because they are still choking in CL despite their very good team.
Bayern have the whole Bundesliga feeding them players. Liverpool is the contrary to Bar?a. They got very succesful and lucky with their signings but with some injuries, it isn't all rosy either for them.
So tell me, what Bar?a should have done to please Messi ? Only player i know he wanted specifically was Neymar last summer. Bar?a tried and he was too expensive. Maybe Messi should have given away a bit of his money to get his amigo back to the club.
