How Barcelona brought its most valuable asset to the brink of death

Many people have gone through an arduous and expensive journey just to see Messi with their own eyes

Look at how Messi plays, without words, to see more clearly the magic of the Argentine player: the worse his teammates are, the better he stands out. Sitting in the sunny chairs of the Camp Nou, you will be able to witness the pilgrimage of citizens from any part of the world. Here, father and son hold the Bolivian flag. The other three sitting on the other side, apparently a family, spoke in Belarusian lines, topics probably related to money, effort and time invested in their hearts Mecca. They don’t come here just for Barcelona, ​​they are here for Messi. And Messi is something that the club is about to lose.

It’s not just the fans. Luis Figo said that watching Messi play “feels like an orgasm.” ‘Soccer expert’ Thierry Henry said that he should always remind himself not only to watch Messi but to keep up with the progress of the game. Thiago Alcantara, who now wins the Champions League on several occasions, expressed the admiration of a crazy fan: “People often tell me that they saw Pelé and Maradona play. Perhaps in the future I can say with force that I have seen Messi play ”.

Messi still has a chance to stay. His intention to leave could be a powerful game to eliminate President Joseph Maria Bartomeu. He wanted to use his enormous influence to make a late trade for Barcelona without interfering too much on the board. But in the past, the player always ages faster than the reputation of the superclub (the superclub), football has never seen a player want to change BLD, football also anywhere else on the planet. Except Barcelona!

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But whatever it is, Pandora’s box has been opened. BLD Barcelona accidentally forced the player to forever consider this dissatisfaction to the point of mutating. The sad reality shows that there will be no turning back. Messi is right. Everybody sees that.

Because of Messi’s incredible betrayal, Barcelona deserves headaches. If you are surprised by Messi’s iron will, you must know that they created the monster that they are today. The lack of focus strategy (£ 800 million in transfer fees in just three years) not only doesn’t solve any problems, it suffocates your best player. Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele, both outside the quarterfinals, each had a higher transfer price than the Bayern Munich team.

La Masia has long been a dilemma. A string of appointments lacked in-depth judgment, leaving the best players too early to leave (Mauro Icardi, Andre Onana, Thiago, Alex Grimaldo) and sanctions from FIFA for illegally transferring losers. 18 years has undermined the prerogative of the academy. For the first time in history, the Spanish under-21 team attended the European Championship without a Barcelona player.

The truth is bitter, but there are many other clubs better than Barcelona. ‘Month that a club’ distorted from a headline philosophy to a marketing slogan, starting with rampant marketing and ending up receiving funding from Qatar. If Barcelona represents something, Messi represents it.

Barcelona wasted Messi’s youth, wasted his extraordinary resources

The irony: it’s the principle that makes Messi feel most uncomfortable. I’m tired of being a ‘one-man superclub’. The seriousness of the downward move in Barcelona was tempered by the weary majesty on Messi’s face, which at times led to the belief that he was a difficult abuser. From 24 to 33, the number of times Barcelona and Messi reached the Champions League final with Tottenham Hotspur and Borussia Dortmund, less than Atlético de Madrid.

There are arguments that believe that having the best player in the history of modern football is a privilege, but it can also be a curse. Owning Messi means maximum security, like playing games on a computer with non-lethal mode activated. Messi acted as a cryptographic hack that lured Barcelona against any request for internal evaluation, year after year, and unleashed the fury that made Messi’s halo die. Why should they care? Do we still have Messi?

This is really difficult to accept, but Messi is part of the problem similar to Barcelona’s current solution. If Barcelona operates strategically and reasonably, it will flourish when Messi is sublime. But on the contrary, Barcelona fell into a difficult situation and Messi became the surest veil of systemic problems that nobody in Barcelona seemed to care about and was able to solve. It makes its main superstar a major force in resisting reform.

Messi is right. Because everyone sees how bad the Board of Barcelona is

This is undoubtedly the biggest crime in Barcelona. They wasted more than they wasted Messi. They are an excellent example of where mismanagement will push a super club. They were rich, they had a glorious history, worldwide support, and the greatest player of this generation, perhaps for generations, but somehow they managed to bankrupt themselves. incredible benefits. Their one and last “point of sale” was pressured to the point that it was impossible to turn around. Messi will miss Barcelona, ​​but Barcelona will miss him even more.

Theo Daniel Storey | iNews