Probably only one year

Messi stays because he has no choice

photo_camera PHOTO - Lionel Messi, player of Futbol Club Barcelona

Year 2000, again on a napkin (as in the case of Zidane with Florentino), Carles Rexach undertakes to give a contract to a 13 year old boy named Lionel Messi.

In 2004, Messi makes his debut with F.C. Barcelona and begins the best football season in the club. Time in which more titles are won and for many the best football ever seen in the history of football is practiced.

Year 2020, Messi has achieved 34 official titles with the azulgrana club, emphasizing the four champions, the 10 leagues and the six King's Cups. All the barcelonism and the world of the football at world-wide level are impacted by the news of Messi announcing that it leaves the blaugrana equipment after 16 years of professional. 20 years since Carles Rexach's famous napkin.

All the criticism is directed to the current president Josep María Bartomeu. The continuous protests of Leo of not surrounding him with a first level team, nor similar to the one he had with Iniesta, Xavi, Puyol, Neymar and Dani Alves, and above all the lack of communication between the president and the star of the team and star of world football.

Some critics with Leo: strategy to win more, that if he wants to put also the president, that if he disrespects his companions, lack of affection to the club that gave him everything...

Another actor in this series is the manager who was in the best period of Barcelona, Josep Guardiola. He is currently the manager of Manchester City and, according to some journalists, the destination club for Argentine crack.

It's been about ten days since the famous burofax, everyone knows him because he was in the news all over the world, and after meetings of the footballer's father and the president: Messi announces that he will continue.

September 4th, Messi's interview in Goal. Messi announces that he is staying.

Reasons why he stays: "The reason why I am not leaving is because "the virus this of shit" has altered the dates, the competition was extended and I did not want to treat this subject in the heat of competition. The month of June passed and the only way to leave was to pay the clause or go to court against the club of my life and that gave me everything.

Reasons for wanting to leave Barcelona: "I always said I wanted a winning project. The truth is that it's been a while since there's been a project or anything, they keep juggling and filling in the holes as things go by. It was a decision I had been thinking about leaving the club and I had been telling the president about it. I wanted to leave because I was thinking of living happily my last years of football. This last year I did not find happiness within the club.

Why the burofax: "The burofax was to make it official in some way. During the whole year I had been telling the president that I wanted to go, he said all the time: "We will talk, no, this and that", but nothing. In a manner of speaking, the president did not say "hello" to me.

Leo's wishes: What I wanted most was to finish my career at the club. I always put the club before everything else. I have had opportunities every year to leave, earning much more.

Complicated decision: "For my family it was a barbaric drama, crying, my children saying they did not want to leave Barcelona, they did not want to change schools.

Press and people around the world of football:" It has hurt me a lot that things are published against me and above all, that I am published false. In the world of football there are very false people, it has helped me to know who is who.

Optimistic message to Barsa fans: I will do my best and it is a bit hypocritical to say that I had a bad time this past year when there are people having a bad time because of this pandemic. The important thing is that this happens. Not very optimistic in my opinion.

My opinion is that Messi is not leaving the Barsa because Manchester City cannot pay the 700 million clause. If he had chosen to leave in June, he would have left for free, but the truth is that in June, Bayer Munich's 8-2 had not taken place. In June the malaise of Leo was evident because he did not see team to win titles, but he continued fighting so that together with Suarez Ter Stegen Piqué and Busquet exhaust the possibilities of winning the champions or the league.

The result of the Bayer was the drop, rather the torrent, that made Leo increase his bad being and made evident that the equipment and the trainer were not to the height of a winning F.C. Barcelona, nor of a phenomenon like Leo Messi.

To this we add the decisions of the president, first to bring a coach, Ronald Koeman, who can be considered a legend of the club, but without experience in the management of a first level club and lacking tact when it comes to treating the players. We saw him during his time at Valencia C.F.

And the final straw was the decision to dispense with Luis Suarez. A very useful player for Barcelona for at least two years and above all: a close friend of Leo Messi and a great support of the Argentinean in the dressing room. Koeman's ways in notifying the Uruguayan of his decision were not very appropriate considering the player's career at Barsa.

The president, some say that to balance their accounts and to leave the Barsa without losing money him and his directive, was delighted with the departure of Leo Messi. But on having seen the repercussions in all the aspects that the march of the best player of the history of the club was bringing, he has recede and we will see how it solves the economic problem of the Barsa and of his directive.

The player, has in mind to leave the next year and to use this one to say goodbye and to leave the club of his life by the big door.

This would only be remedied by the arrival of a new president with great economic power who would offer Messi a winning project with real top level players.

With all due respect: not Dembeles, Coutinho, Arthur, Junior Firpo, Lenglet, Vidal or Braithwaite, but Neymar, Mbappé, Sterling, Van Dijk, Mané, Golo Kanté, Marquinhos or similar.​​​​​​​

Time will provide the solution. But as we said in our article "Law of life" last August 28th in the world of sport nothing is eternal.

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