Lionel Messi - v7

[Sorin]

If Laporta is so serious about a "new era" then I expect the departure of the likes of Pique, Bob, Umtiti, Coutinho, Busi, Alba, Dembele and a few others by the end of the month. Anything less and his words will mean jackshit.

 

[akaranzo]

so they agree on something months ago and suddenly laporta finds out we are still way off? give me a break.

No, he likely knew we were off because we were skirting the line for a long time, but he expected La Liga to budge which every other major league in Europe has done. But La Liga wants the TV rights deal to go through so they won't budge, they want to force Barca's hand by saying ''we are not moving the line one inch, but you can sign Messi if you accept the deal''. So Laporta has a choice, sign the deal and sign Messi but give up a huge amount of revenue for up to 50 years, or let go of Messi. La Liga expected him to take the first option (Bartomeu probably would have), but Laporta won't take that kind of bad deal for the club.

 

[Nazario1985]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#55357;&#57000; PSG are now in DIRECT talks with Messi's &#55356;&#56806;&#55356;&#56823; camp and studying the figures of a new contract. It's now a serious option for Messi. They are not the only club in for him. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PSG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PSG</a> <br><br>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FabrizioRomano</a>&#55356;&#57109</p>— Football Transfers (@Transferzone00) <a href="https://twitter.com/Transferzone00/status/1423599943751651328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Leong157]

We should not trust any words coming from the tier 1 source anymore regarding Messi.

 

[Nazario1985]

A nice brief summary :

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The conclusions after the Joan Laporta press conference. <br>The main one: Messi is definitely leaving. <br>Another one: The club is on the verge of bankruptcy (Laporta says they have solutions) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Messi?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Messi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Barcelona?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Barcelona</a> <a href="https://t.co/kqX8Xc4sTt">pic.twitter.com/kqX8Xc4sTt</a></p>— Guillem Balague (@GuillemBalague) <a href="https://twitter.com/GuillemBalague/status/1423597779624943624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Joan]

Has Fabrizio Romano ever broken any news? Not that I'm saying it's not true, but God, that man's so obvious

 

[DonAK]

Has Fabrizio Romano ever broken any news? Not that I'm saying it's not true, but God, that man's so obvious

Plenty of times, but rarely anything related to Barca.

But then again even our reporters cannot break shit. The club's full of shit so no wonder.

 

[Gari]

CVC is ready to pull out from the La Liga deal if they don't have the support of the two big clubs: Bar?a and Madrid.

 

[Nazario1985]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Manchester City returning Jack Grealish back to Aston Villa to sign Lionel Messi. <a href="https://t.co/3Fe1PKNRa2">pic.twitter.com/3Fe1PKNRa2</a></p>— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyNemer/status/1423329589892460544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[mc_lovin]

CVC is ready to pull out from the La Liga deal if they don't have the support of the two big clubs: Bar?a and Madrid.

Nice.

 

[Hardy]

Messi wasn't a dream of city's owner? and now that he's on a silver plat they do nothing? very strange if you ask me

 

[SmilerBam]

If Laporta is so serious about a "new era" then I expect the departure of the likes of Pique, Bob, Umtiti, Coutinho, Busi, Alba, Dembele and a few others by the end of the month. Anything less and his words will mean jackshit.

No. These bums will remain. Gosh, this club will sink in deepest mediocrity i ever seen in my lifetime.

 

[akaranzo]

Messi wasn't a dream of city's owner? and now that he's on a silver plat they do nothing? very strange if you ask me

There are reports now saying they have made a contract offer to him

 

[Joan]

Plenty of times, but rarely anything related to Barca.

But then again even our reporters cannot break shit. The club's full of shit so no wonder.

Yeah? Good for him. Don't follow much but always see him being the second one to report news.

 

[BBZ8800]

Ronaldinho was fat, lost more than half his pace, couldn't dribble, and was a chronic alcoholic and was deemed as a bad influence to the squad by the time he hit 27. He should've been binned after his world cup run in 2006.

Messi's been scoring 30-50 goals for more than 10 years now, and is always the world's best player, if not, at the very least top 3, every single season. He "managed" to stay this long because he's the best player in the squad responsible for the vast majority of our season long accomplishments.

Stop comparing him to Brazilian has beens, and the career trajectory of a manager/coach from 30 years ago.

Unpopular opinion, but Messi was a non factor for a several years in a CL and lately even in El Classicos and bigger La Liga games.

Majority of his goals are coming from matches against midtable and bottom table clubs.

Ronaldinho was fat but it is not as if Messi is deciding titles anymore.
It's cruel, but it is truth.