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Stays? Insurance? Hasn’t she already gone? The feeling that remains after the announcement by Lionel Messi to fulfill his contract with FC Barcelona until next year, far from giving a message of optimism, opens more than one question.
And if he stays, what does he stay for? The succession of reproaches for the lack of word of the managers, who promised him that he would decide his future and in the end ‘they cut off his hand’; the insistence that there is no project but pure improvisation; the annoyance over the situation of his friend Luis Suárez, the first ‘beheaded’ by Koeman; the body language itself that makes it clear that he does not feel comfortable, suggests that the theory that he will be the first stone of reconstruction is going to generate structural problems at FC Barcelona.
How to avoid it? Giving you competition, your fuel. In two decades, Messi had the luxury of scoring 634 goals in 731 games, winning 33 titles, and becoming the best footballer in the world. That nobody realizes that this is what he really misses? Ah yes, Guardiola saw it and Manchester City saw it, but the Argentine’s family could not get him out without a legal mess in between and that is why the proposal will take another year.
Now we have to appeal to those that Pep himself would have told him to convince him to stay at FC Barcelona: he cannot leave in the middle of the chaos, like jumping from the ship about to sink. If in the end it should be on a high peak, surrounded by trophies, as before the row of debacles in recent years in the Champions League. It would have to be like Xavi or Iniesta, surrounded by glory. Not like this, not like now, giving the feeling of running away instead of saying goodbye.
On the road there are still several attractive marks: he may be the player who has won the most titles with the same club, as he is only two of Ryan Giggs’ 36 with Manchester United. He can achieve the record for games with Barça: Xavi has 767 games and he has 731 … he meets the season until the title dispute and it will be done.
He still has the record for goals with the same club that Pelé has (643 by Messi’s 631) and he can set a record for consecutive seasons since Rexach and Xavi have 17 and he is only one behind.
If Messi wants to find reasons to get motivated again. And the most optimistic want to believe that he wants to, while those on the opposite shore feel that, in fact, he has already left the “club of his life” and left him the best he had. Now, does FC Barcelona have how to guarantee the necessary tools to give him the light of competition that he cries out for? There is the real sea in the background …
