Temptation
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Many players reject huge offers from places like Middle East and China in the past.
Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2
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ZenI
Professor Balthazar
Exactly...
CatalinR10
Senior Member
Huge offers like what ? 20 mil / year , maybe 30 ? Fucking LOL comparing that pocket money with the pharaonic amount that is talked these days.
As soon as Benzema was hit with that 200 mil (?) / season offer he packed his bags as fast as he could regardless that he could play more in Europe.
News that Kante is gonna accept a 100 mil / year offer as well.
Even those fucking ridiculous numbers don't come close to the 1,2 billion that is lately rumored to be the offer Messi has on the table for 2 years. If he postpones his leave even for 1 year , so he could say goodbye the proper way to Barca ,then hats off to him.
Jaguar
Flair Trait
Messi can easily join Barca for a last year or two and still make a similar amount in Saudi Arabia when he’s ready to downgrade. What’s the point in choosing money over one last big part of his legacy when he can choose both? They aren’t gonna run out of money to offer the best player that ever lived, can tell you that
Temptation
Well-known member
Relatively for those poorer players that amount is just as big.
Messi is miles richer than them players already
malvolio
Senior Member
Weren't players packing bags and moving to China or Chechnya?
Amounts were big, but not this big? Plus all these players are semi-retired. Of course they can take a deal like that now.
soul24rage
Senior Member
#aguantaleo
Fuck, he's coming then.
Luftstalag14
Culé de Celestial Empire
I am kinda torn. On one hand I don't want Messi to return as it doesn't benefit us, on the other hand I really don't want him to take the huge money and go to Saudi Arabia as I think such a move will tarnish his image. Come on Messi, just go back to Argentina.
Birdy
Senior Member
His registration can never be guaranteed as it depends on people like Ansu or Ferran accepting being transferred elsewhere.
And they won't, all leaks say so. Frenkie's case last summer should have taught them to never plan like that, but Laporta and the board never learn
Barca is a place everyone wants to be, and no other place compares to that - especially if a player is young and not looking for a petro-dollar retirement home
I don't want him to return either for the same reason.
But i don't agree with the last part: it would be nice for people to get disillusioned for once about people they idolize. They have built an image in which Messi is almost close to a saint
Temptation
Well-known member
Messi can still cut it in LL for a year or 2.
Nothing wrong in wanting to make money for his family but something about those Oil League leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. Just shows where Football is heading. We're "legacy fans" anyways so we're irrelevant.
Messi can easily join Barca for a last year or two and still make a similar amount in Saudi Arabia when he’s ready to downgrade. What’s the point in choosing money over one last big part of his legacy when he can choose both? They aren’t gonna run out of money to offer the best player that ever lived, can tell you that
Don't underestimate the pride of the Saudi. They want Messi now and will offer him big money to get him now because clubs like Barca still want him in Europe.
He just won the world cup so his value to them is right now.
If he rejects them now, they will probably come back for him in the future but at half the amounts that were talking now perhaps. So still huge money, but a Cristiano amount.
Is there any difference in getting your oil money paid in Saudi than to getting it paid in Paris, Manchester or Newcastle?
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