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The departure of Lionel Messi from Barcelona is a bomb that affects the world football industry

2020-08-25T20:43:17.486Z


The wounds of the Argentine's decision are irreversible and now there will be a fight to keep his services.Daniel Lagares 08/25/2020 - 17:30 Clarín.com sports Lionel Messi said enough . He leaves Barcelona. Or wants to leave. And Barcelona won't let him go under the conditions he wants. The mess now goes to the legal dispute, but the injuries are irreversible. What was never going to happen really happened. Leo came to Barcelona as a child. At the club he became the greatest footballer of the 21st c...


Daniel Lagares

08/25/2020 - 17:30

  • Clarín.com
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Lionel Messi said enough . He leaves Barcelona. Or wants to leave. And Barcelona won't let him go under the conditions he wants. The mess now goes to the legal dispute, but the injuries are irreversible. What was never going to happen really happened.

Leo came to Barcelona as a child. At the club he became the greatest footballer of the 21st century. In the city he became a man. His three children were born there. There he had planned to continue his life when the legs said enough. And suddenly, or after a long process, everything jumped through the air.

It can be said that Messi did not want this situation. The management of the board of directors of President Josep Maria Bartomeu did not seem to be in the same line.

The symbol of "More than a club" , the flag of the most glorious period of a Barcelona that marked sports hegemony, behind which all the many were mixed: social, economic and political. The vindication of nationalism and also that "Catalonia is Spain". The Ballons d'Or, the Leagues, the Champions League with a smiling and happy Messi. Everything is past.

The king. Lionel Messi, with the six Ballons d'Or AFP Photo

Divorce, kill the father, slam the door, exile ... Any figure fits for these hours in which Messi takes off the Barca shirt.

It is a depth bomb whose outbreak affects not only the club but the football industry . The teenager who signed his first contract on a napkin closes the book written in gold letters with the worst of the end.

Messi resorts to the clause that allowed him to leave the club without charge, with an expiration date of May 30, and appeals that the pandemic ran throughout the calendar, thus maintaining its validity. Barcelona says the opposite. At that point they are stopped. Bocato di cardinale for law firms.

"As long as the club wants to have me, I'm going to be here", words more, words less, said Leo during the last two years. Everything that happened from the elimination of Anfield to the Lisbon disaster gave him signs that he was not considered as he believes he deserves.

Other times. Lionel Messi, when signing the renewal of his contract with Barcelona near the president Josep Maria Bartomeu.

Dialogue broken with Bartomeu, fight for the salary cut to the squad, public fight with former sports director Eric Abidal , anger at the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde, bad relationship with Quique Setien and an unsatisfactory meeting with Ronald Koeman were added to the account he had pass him to the Camp Nou offices.

All his well-off life in the Catalan capital he resigns it when he could begin to enjoy the honors of a sporting autumn.

Who can question Messi's contribution to Barcelona in the last 16 years? Staying with Rome, Anfield and Lisbon and the last League of Spain are photos, just. They cannot twist the balance to an unfavorable judgment, although in memory it remains that Leo's last game with the Barça shirt ended 2-8.

The big question, which has no answer, is whether Barcelona really wants to keep it in its discipline, as Bartomeu assures every time he appears before the press. If so, the directive gave signals to the contrary .

Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, in the previous 2-8 with Bayern Munich., Photo EFE

That Luis Suárez was the first to be erased was a shot for elevation to Messi, known the relationship between both. Putting the Uruguayan in the first line of the black list served as a threat. That Koeman's communication was in a telephone conversation that did not exceed a minute was nothing more than a lack of respect for the club's third historic scorer . And a tail touch to Messi.

What treatment can Leo expect during the management of the Dutchman and the board, which ends in March? Bartomeu, in turn, is one step away from going down in history as the president who let Messi go . Nor will it be free. A small group of fans shouted "Resignation!" at the gates of the Camp Nou.

Messi and his father also do not stitch without a thread and the star anticipates the next plays. He knows that he will not lack where to play. If your argument of the validity of the clause prevails, in your hands will be the power to choose where to play. If instead it must face the termination clause stipulated in 700 million euros, which was also going to be negotiable, it is because the candidate who will put the corresponding figure has already insured.

Will they get back together? Lionel Messi greets Pep Guardiola when they were a player and coach at Barsa in 2012 Photo Reuters

It is easy to guess where that money will come from. Inter, in the first place, with the Chinese capitals of the owner of the Milanese club. PSG, with the Qatari fortune. Or Manchester City, the other club-state in a position not to get angry at the horrifying numbers. And surely new "girlfriends" will appear.

And we should not rule out a Machiavellian move by Florentino Pérez . If he flirted with taking Neymar, why not think that he would evaluate having Messi at Real Madrid?

It is the only thing that the saga lacks. That Messi ends up dressed in white.

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Source: clarin

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