Hope all the delusional Messi lovers around the world who do not care about Barca disappear at the exact moment Messi leaves somewhere else or retires.
Honestly, good riddance. These people are toxic as hell. I prefer Barca fans, not Messi fanboys disguised as Barca fans.
Sometimes I really fail to understand the word "fan".
Aren't players like Messi, Iniesta, xavi, ronaldinho, ronaldo etc, the ones that attract people to football and ultimately to a club? Isn't the style of play or the good times? If not for those, why else would someone follow a club on the first place? Because the colors are nice?
It really makes no sense all this talk about real or fake fans.
The reasons one follows a club as a kid can be anything: from colors to players to style of play.
The question is what you do as an adult.
If as an adult you care more about Messi than about Barca, maybe you are not a Barca fan after all...
What is caring about Barca? If Messi goes then how is this suddenly brilliant for us? Wanting the best for Messi at barcelona is as good as many barca fans here who want to see someone in his place who runs around more but ultimately is not good enough. Maybe we should throw another 100m at someone who doesn't score goals again? Barcelona are a club that have been successful sporadically throughout history. Messi's success for us has setup a dynasty where future generations of players will look to emulate and even overtake his success here further pushing Barca's success as time goes on. People don't even remotely understand what he's done for us. He's still even done relatively well this season, shit game today? yes. name 3 players that were good
Here is the first fanboy at it.
If Messi created by himself that dynasty as you claim, why no CL since 2015?
Why the 18/19 team - with the best Messi ever according to some - was humiliated against a team playing with high intensity?
Needless to say, the list of people you are disrespecting with that statement is pretty long, starting with Pep, Xavi, Iniesta, and goes looong...
Why wouldn't Pep/City want him? Pep loves Messi, and Messi's still a top player on his day, and if he plays in that City team, he can still do serious damage to other teams. He doesn't have to do a lot of running around if he's playing like a playmaker. I personally feel he'll do great in a team like City. Besides, I'm sure he won't lack motivation there as he has with us.
He also brings in a lot of money from marketing, so that's another positive from City's end. Basically, he'll end up paying for himself. He can also attract other top players to the clubs; players like Haaland will love to play alongside Messi. City can easily take the chance on a free transfer for roughly 3 years. It won't destroy their team. There is no negatives in signing Messi on a free.
I don't think so.
Playing in LaLiga masks all the problems that get exposed when you play a top opponent in Europe, like tonight.
EPL is the strongest league in what Messi lacks: intensity, running, defending.
Scoring free-kicks and playing some beautiful through-balls will not make City any better, when they will lose one man in intensity, defending, and transitioning.
I think Pep is still the best coach in the world, but I am not sure he can mask that...
