Hehehe... was bound to happen i don't know why people are surprised this is always been a Barcelona thing
When did you keep someone till his 30's ? Maradona ? Cruyff ? Rivaldo ? Ronaldo ? Ronaldinho , Laudrup ? Stoichkov ...
Hell not even Puyol is retiring here , neither did Pep ...
Always been a Barcelona thing , nothing change ... The king is dead , long live the king... even the approach is the same way
Now here is what you will read next winter if it happens this summer
Messi was chronically injured and cannot gain his old form anymore
He is blocking Neymar progress and the team can't have both and sacrifice their style
He became a dictator disrupting the team harmony & bad influence without doing an effort (insert couple of stats , defeats , never heard before inside stories , his personal vendetta against Ibra , Villa , Eto'o & even Dinho... and then the cherry on top of the cake would be "Pep wanted to sell him and when the board refused he left " )
fast forward few years and remove Messi and put Neymar and enter the dragon
Come on... i'm sure someone at least 2 or 3 comes from an old generation like me and remember all those incidents in the past 30 years ?
In for a lovely dramatic summer