FinBarcelonafan
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Ney never should have left. We're a shambles with 250+ wasted millions on Coutinho and Dembele because of him.
Exactly. This will go down as 500mil wasted money or close to it, if we buy him back for 200mil.
Ney never should have left. We're a shambles with 250+ wasted millions on Coutinho and Dembele because of him.
We're trying to move this team forward and what does Messi do? He's doing PR for his buddy Neymar to make the club sign him back and get into more shit. Some leader...
in the end the board takes the decision. pushing the blame on messi is just lazy thinking and just eating up the crap spewed by the press. people came and went while he was here. did that made him pack up his bags and leave? did that hindered his performance on the pitch?
if you think about it maybe we would have been better off if we would have brought all of messi's pals to the club. we splashed huge amounts on dembele, coutinho and griezmann. all were board decisions and not messi pals. look where that got us.
I think we've already agreed that the board is crap. All of us think the same, and our current situation wouldn't have happened with a good, professional board.
But Messi is also a problem. He sides with his buddies. I think nobody sane really doubts that the term Club de Amigos, meaning veterans with very high powers at the club, running things more than they should, is basically a term for Messi & friends.
It's OK if you believe that. I don't. I think Messi is no1 Amigo and a big influence in the locker-room. You can't talk about amigos and veterans running things, and not speak about Messi imo. Messi is a great player still, but a bad influence in the team and in the locker-room. Plenty of reasons to believe this part too.
what do you mean "he sides with his buddies"? i can't remember him having a tantrum when fabregas got sold(and the fabregas family are really close to messi's family).
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I feel you've got this one wrong.
Of course he's a big influence in the dressing room. He's the best player in our history. It would be strange if he didn't have a big influence.
It's not like Ronaldinho who was a party boy and whose on pitch performance was bad. Messi only recently deservedly won the Ballon d'or.
You seem very eager to accelerate his retirement. Why? We'll have decades to see what life is like after Messi. He can stay for as long as he wants imo.
Cesc wanted to leave, we didn't push him out of the club.
For what it's worth, hackers who hacked the club's personal messages claim that Neymar's return had been finalised
Ney never should have left. We're a shambles with 250+ wasted millions on Coutinho and Dembele because of him.
You seem very eager to accelerate his retirement. Why? We'll have decades to see what life is like after Messi. He can stay for as long as he wants imo.
Messi wanted to keep his friends around before he has agreed to renew his contract the last time. Bartomeu was affraid to lose him and that's why we renewed Suarez, Raki, Busi, Alba, Pique instead of trying to phase some of them out of the club and replace them with younger and hungrier players. This is Messi's power which has (indirectly) influenced on a lot of our decisions over the past few years and have put us in a situation we're currently in and will be for a few more years until those players contracts will expire (we'll have a hard time to get rid off them before because they are happy to be here and because we also still don't want to upset Messi by pushing his friends out of the club).