This is the truth of the MESSI - BARCELONA saga: An agreement was reached between Barcelona and Messi for a renewed contract with Messi agreeing a 50% salary cut in a 2 year contract with option to extend by a year...and payable over a period of 5 years. The only obstacle the was meeting the la liga financial fair play regulations. Laporta hoped that la liga would ultimately flex the regulations in one way or the other thus allowing for the Messi deal to go through. There was an indication that la liga was to come up with something....no doubt Laporta had been promised same by Tebas the liga president that on Thursday there would be new developments which would allow Messi to get registered....and indeed la liga came up with the cash injection project.

However, to Laporta's surprise, the la liga deal was such that it had a mortgage attached to it which would see Barcelona not being able to enter into such projects like the super league in the next 50 years, so it was either choosing the la liga deal and Messi on one side or the super league on the other side...a tough one for Laporta who for months has been singing from the same hymn book crafted by Perez the madrid president that they wouldn't back down on super league....they believe the super league will generate more cash to clubs through expansion of TV rights. Laporta then choz the super league and so he told Messi and his dad that they wouldn't continue with the deal. That's why today Laporta was talking about 'we can't afford to lose on TV rights for the next 50 years thereby taking the la liga deal...and @the exact time Tebas the liga president tweeted and said' the la liga deal was never to take away TV rights'....and he was right, the la liga deal was never to take away barcelona's current TV rights but rather it'd thwart expansion of TV rights insofar as super league is concerned... and Laporta dribbled past that issue when it was brought to his attention halfway through his press briefing....what he fell short of mentioning was the term super league. It was no coincidence that on thursday real madrid rejected the la liga deal in case Laporta was to renege on their gentleman's agreement and take it....

So that is it! The super league is what stood on the way in the last minutes of announcing the Messi deal, la liga attached that condition inherently and impliedly in their deal. The end result favours real madrid, Mbappe will not stay at psg especially with Messi coming in and madrid, who long prepared for signing n registering Mbappe thereby letting go of Ramos and Varane, will get their man with no worries of offending the la liga regulations. That's it, it hurts being a Barcelona fan at the moment, but we remain barcelona, b4 Messi we supported the team, so shall we even now and beyond. Visca Barca!!!!!!!!


Messi is not Happy leaving Barca and Barca cannot sacrifice their future because of Messi. Messi remains Barcelona legend and will come back to Camp Nou may be as a sporting director in no distant time.