Lionel Messi - v7

[Messigician]

I am not sure if this is Laporta's last try to squeeze La Liga or not. He was not perfectly clear when asked if this is final decision or not.

This

 

[Messigician]

He said at the moment he cannot be registered

 

[Xaviniesta]

kun emerson garcia depay came accepting salary conditions

respect

 

[ajnotkeith]

There's no chance this is a bluff. He was perfectly clear that we needed hundreds of millions off the wage bill.

Laporta just said we could sign our new signings because they accepted certain conditions. Despite him just saying we were hundreds of millions over the bill lol

 

[Messigician]

Fuck seems Laporta made his decision.

 

[Neeraj]

If this was a pure pressure play from Laporta, he would NOT use the sentence - "Today marks a new era".

That is very telling, that it is what it is, and he sees this as closed. I think they've just gotten fed up and said you know what letting Messi go resolves a LOT of issues, let's just take it on the chin and move on.

 

[suckabov]

There's no chance this is a bluff. He was perfectly clear that we needed hundreds of millions off the wage bill.

The thinking (or hoping) was more that there's no way this does not add an insane amount of pressure to la liga/Tebas from more sides than just Barca with a chance (albeit unlikely) that a solution could be found with more flexibel rules, not so much that they are pretending.

 

[Andresito]

"Is the situation irreversible?"

Laporta: I don't want to give false hope

 

[mc_lovin]

There's no chance this is a bluff. He was perfectly clear that we needed hundreds of millions off the wage bill.

Laporta just said we could sign our new signings because they accepted certain conditions. Despite him just saying we were hundreds of millions over the bill lol

More importantly they can be reconciled with the 1:4 rule. Messi can't. Not with 50ME/year.

 

[JamDav1982]

No chance it is a power play.

Laporta looks on verge of tears and completely dejected.

 

[malvolio]

first guy that asks him why he lied

 

[serghei]

More importantly they can be reconciled with the 1:4 rule. Messi can't. Not with 50ME/year.

That's the key. His contract is too damn huge.

You need 200m to spend 50m on a new contract I think.

 

[ajnotkeith]

More importantly they can be reconciled with the 1:4 rule. Messi can't. Not with 50ME/year.

Well let's take his example, to free 25m we need to free 100m. And let's say Emerson Depay Aguero Garcia were all 25m (conservative estimate)

The only major outgoing as I see it is Messi. Did we need to let go Messi to sign them

 

[iniestaGOAT]

The Messi Era is officialy over.

Ansu, Halaand whoever wants it bad enough. time to shine.

 

[suckabov]

If this was a pure pressure play from Laporta, he would NOT use the sentence - "Today marks a new era".

That is very telling, that it is what it is, and he sees this as closed. I think they've just gotten fed up and said you know what letting Messi go resolves a LOT of issues, let's just take it on the chin and move on.

Not a play, but the pressure is there. The question is more whether there's any chance la liga will do anything about it, or let it slip. Doubt Laporta wouldn't sign Messi if the situation changed.