I think Messi and others will be sold if this board survives a confidence vote. They view this team as legacy of Laporta. They will sell Messi to raise money for the new stadium so history can say Qatar Airways Camp Nou built during the rule of.....
Let's face it! Xavi, Puoyl, VV are leaving which makes it easier to rid of Messi. Neymar$ will take centre stage with a new coach that I bet has already given his thoughts to how the new team should look like. The FIFA ban might complicate things a bit..
Again all this CAN HAPPEN if the board survives. The Rosell crap started before he even took over. They have an agenda and they are trying to execute it. I can't see Messi and this board co-existing for long. One of the two will be departing and I hope it's the rotten board of directors.
Welcome to FC Barcelona
The board can't sell Messi because in reality Messi is more powerful than any of them and they know it. He has more political and social power behind him than the board does and if they dare to risk putting a price tag on him then they will face wrath so great that it is like that the board members will actually be putting themselves in danger by doing so.
Messi doesn't want to leave, it's pathetic that he has to come out every 2 months and say that he wants to see out his career at Barca. He will stay unless he is pushed out, but that isn't likely going to happen to a board that is currently under massive scrutiny, nearing the end of their term and has a man in the presidents chair that wasn't even elected.
Making Messi sign a new contract is their ONLY source of any salvation at this point. They know that there is absolutely no room to fuck it up.
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