Messi and Iniesta owns most of our history. Nobody will support Barcelona for Xavi. Xavi was there before and we got only the few deluded Dream Team fans abroad of my age. Before Ronaldinho we were under Milan, Juve, Inter, Real, United, Arsenal, Bayern, even f Valencia as fan base. While Ronaldinho did got us in the club (with hard work from Iniesta, Messi, Valdez, Puyol etc) Messi made us bigger than all of them.
Yes the last salary was huge but given the other salaries and his output was quiet normal for us, maybe he had tantrums over time, but if he was a money merchant as Mbppape he had Milan, Inter, Chelsea, PSG, City, Real that could offer him mountains of money.
Just look at what PSG paid to Mbappe who won nothing special for them. Imagine the Messi deal back in 2013, or the City deal or even a move to Real in 2008, Milan, Juve, Inter before, Chelsea in 2011.
And no, Messi was quite close to save the club with his transfer request, 100 something before pandemic could have paid allot of bills for terminating the contracts of useless players on big salaries.
The club started to go unprofitable because of Grizman loan and salary on top of others and the constant harrasment by the same plastics on Bartomeu to transfer back Neymar or a replacement to compete Perez in UCL lol. Every f deluded transfer was requested by those plastics. Dembele, Coutinho, Griz despite being obvious disasters.
That's it, the fuckers thought you can compete mafia and somehow saw in Neymar transfer some tragedy.
In reality Mbappe was way more good in 2017 and selling Neymar was mandatory despite his good PSG game if you saw anything.
Those plastics, mundo, sport, blaugranes, talkfcb and other fuckers made Bartomeu push the club to the limits and then the pandemic who was unpredictable crushed the club.
The club had the oportunity to sell Messi right there if he was unprofitable, had the oportunity to refuse paiments to players and to get in a civil court. But they prefered to get loans and not all under Barto.
And don't tell me because I was absolutely canceled for criticism to Suarez, Dembele, Neymar, Griz. Fans were against Suarez only in the last year and even now the plastics call out Koeman for telling him to g out.
Anyways, the beauty of this forum is debating Barca history with clueless men.
Messi was for sure not cheap to keep but if he was a merchant my god it was a stupid merchant to remain at Barcelona when there were tons of olygharchs and kings who would have buried him in money.
