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BlueAngel444:
#4144 Messi will pull a bale on barca

Messi at Barca.

Bale at Madrid.


These 2 stories are worlds apart!

CivilzedTyger:
I just like this guy, no homo.

Homo.

Na so dem dey start;
But by the morning after on September 20th we will be seeing headlines like;

*Obaseki rejects results, calls for outright cancellation of exercise.

*Philip Shaibu accuses Oshiomole of using the police to rig the Edo election.

*Kola Olabodiyan calls on Buhari to resign over manipulation of the Edo guber polls.

*Democracy is dead in Nigeria by PDP.

*We are heading to court to challenge the results by Dan Orbih.

*Buhari has destroyed the gigantic electoral strides made by Goodluck Jonathan by Reno Omokri.

*Edo elections were marred by massive rigging and ballot box snatching orchestrated by Adams Oshiomole's thugs.

[quote author=Longman180 post=93609970][/quote]lol

Sugar cane with Palm oil.

So does the survey say only Barca fans participated?

A lot of Madrid fans must have participated and I couldn't care less about the opinions of Madrid fans on Messi.

TalabiAudu:
What!!!

Its a phucking disgrace!

Please

Does anybody find this funny?

Seriously.

Adiwana:
I heard he generates in the region of 200 million per annum. Don't know if it's true though but that man generates a lot of money through tourism for Barcelona(Spain). Not to even talk about what he brings into the league through sponsorships and TV deals

For the president of Argentina to publicly tell him to come back means they know his true worth

If that figure is true then why would anybody want to let him go?

Esp when detailed stats prove that he's still the best?

I repeat let's leave all the noise; no club in the world can let a 33 year old Messi leave.
Maybe at 35.

temi1290:
Things might get better and that could convince him to sign an extension.

Surely.
I thought about that earlier.

Like he said he wants the team to compete for the UCL.
At least compete.

usbcable:
Stop being childish jere.

I always said it made no business sense to leave now or want to leave now.

IF you were Bartomeu WHAT WOULD YOU DO sell him for FREE?
Both parties are trying to make the best BUSINESS WISE DECISION for themselves.

Going on a free transfer means MESSI MAKES MOST OF THE MONEY
Going on a fee means Barca makes money from the TRANSFER

get your head sout of thinking its all about football. THIS ARE BUSINESS ENTITIES negotiating.

MESSI is a company while BARCA is a company too.

My point of disagreement is with you saying that Messi never wanted to leave.

With all the disappontmens of the last 3 seasons?

You think that Messi doesn't want to win more things before he retires?

If you Messi and Man City wanted to buy you and increase your wages,

What would hold you back?

1.Earn money
2.Play under Pep again
3.Play with a better team

Why would you say he doesn't want to leave?

disstroyy:
The players are good. Very good. There's just one thing: they lack what Messi has - that X-factor. That obvious superstar, headline-grabbing ability, mesmerizing quality about them and proven antecedence of leading a team.
Asides Messi and Ronaldo, the only other person currently in football who has that is Neymar, and those obvious features are why Barça bought Neymar, Messi saw him as his heir and now wants him to return. Same thing Ronaldinho and Barça saw in teenage Messi so it was relatively easier to let the former go.

The pain of letting Messi leave when he wanted to would have been at least slightly masked by the consolation of a heir like Neymar.

Forget all these noises these people are making.

I do not see any club in the world that would have let Messi go at 33. They don't wear the shoe.

A player who just won Ballon dor 9 months ago and who at 33 still statistically had the best individual performance in Europe.
Coupled with his commercial value!

Everybody can yap and yap and tap all day and all night,
But no club would have let this Messi go without a fight to keep him.

usbcable:
I never believed he wanted to leave. The issue I have is the noise around the usual "I want to leave". After creating this much noise his only saving grace will be to win the UCL this season. BECAUSE If Messi under performs If barcelona under performs, Messi would be blamed this time around even by some of his most ardent supporters.

In the corporate world, handing a resignation letter to your current employer based on another offer letter received from a competitor is a red flag of loyalty. The management will cajole and convince you to stay back but never for mutually beneficial reasons but to hurt you. They would eventually make you redundant by getting someone to do your work. You would have lost the current offer and some one else would have learnt to do your job role before you get the boot. MESSI CASE MAY NOT BE TOTALLY SIMILAR TO THIS BUT THAT IS HOW BUSINESS WORKS

So why wouldn't he want to leave if a club with better players on current form came and offered him a better contract?

Oh wait, I know! I know!!

He's so scared to leave Barca because he would flop in another league outside Barca!!!

A40:
Should have been a season to make another record making deal and see what Dembele, Coutinho and Griezmann brings to the table. Coutinho and Griezmann turn 29 and 30 next season btw. A pity they are too scared to hand the keys of the team to players they bought for 9 figures.

Barca simply don't trust this trio.

Despite having spent so much on them.

It will be the first time in a long while that we don't have arguably any one of the top 3 world footballers in our ranks.

A40:
Hmmmmm. If Messi does not extend you guys really want to lose him for free? Bear in mind that he staying does not guarantee anything.

How much could the Messi brand generate for Barcelona the next 1 season?

Really have no idea, am just asking.

If it's in the region of hundreds of millions then it would not be such a bad gamble to let him on for one more season and then lose him for free.

Raalsalghul:
And you think him staying against his wish is a good thing?

He has said it explicitly up there "He wants to leave". Let him!

How do you think he will bring his best when his soul/mind is no longer there.

Na wa for you oh!


I don't see any difference between you and the Bartomeu dude: you both want to enslave the dude.

He will give his best. He's a pro.

disstroyy:
Messi just turned the fans on Bartomeu. And fans have been eagerly waiting for a scale goat for a while now. He's losing the next election then or would have to resign/ step aside.

Major changes would happen. Major changes. I noticed Koeman has toned down on his audacious speeches and affront on the players he doesn't want in the team.

The board and club as a whole needed a kick in the backside and Messi just delivered that.

Barca have given the world lessons on how best NOT to run a football club for the past 4 years.

Now they will sit up.

Nice observations about Koeman too. Him go calm down na.

I hope Dembele stays fit, Coutinho is back, Messi Is staying.

Very hopefully a good future awaits us.

He stays!

Best player in the world!!
Beat club in the world!!!

Definitely he got everybody at the club shook.

Now the club would get serious.

I thought I read yesterday where they said Ararume won?

BlueAngel444:
Messi gets paid triple what a world class player earns. Why shouldn't he be expected to do triple the job.

So Messi gets paid triple of what the other 10 get paid?

Wow!

MrOjay1:
Oba should direct his warnings to Oshiomole.


Oshiomole's career is on the line and he will be the one to employ various dark strategies to secure victory but unfortunately for him,the votes of Edo people will prevail.

It will end in premium tears for Oshiomole and he will cry like Ihedioha.

Gov.Obaseki the people's governor should already start preparing for his swearing in ceremony.

4+4=Torwagba

So all the way from Ariaria market in Aba you know more about the happenings in Edo than the Oba?

arabmoney14:
Is anyone bothered by the fact that the club is not active in the transfer market?

We don't even have any idea on how much the club has to spend on transfers this window because its clear we are broke. I thought we could raise up to 50million pounds from Suarez,Vidal, rakitic and umtiti, but it turns out they are all leaving for free.

Were getting Vwanaldum.
I hope I got the spelling right? I don't even want to check.

Sommyroy10:
Messi, your reference to Totti was based on Messi, ya?

Yeah Messi has 4.

I just left out the 2006 one because he only played a cameo in that one.

jpmoriarti:
Nonsense!

If he leaves now, he would be remembered as the coward who ran.

Barcelona has alot of excellent qualities. Beating Liverpool 3 nil is not achieved by a mediocre team but the team lacked alot of mental quality especially when the stake is very high.

This same abject lack of mental strength again underlines Messi's Argentina, where they have been a serial competition final loses, again with the stake being very high and Messi being the captain.

Emotions and sentiments will never allow you guys to see that, while Messi might be a great player, he's almost horrible in other things like leadership. I don't see this current squad lacking in quality. I see them lacking in leadership and mental fortitude

There we go again!

The problem with you guys is that you take Messi for a god literally.
But we only mean it figuratively when we call him adios.
He has limits, he can neither turn stone into bread nor water into wine.

And Fucck leadership, The only way a team wins the champions league is when 2 or 3 players put in world class displays to complement one another.

When the stakes are high Fucck!!

Who tells you the stakes weren't high when we beat Liverpool 3-0 at home?

Who tells you the stakes weren't high when we eliminated Man U?

Why is your definition of "high stakes" applying ONLY to whatever game we lose?
That's probably because hindsight makes life easy right?


I have explained this a million times!

Now picture this scenerio last season!

1. Messi delivers a masterclass against Liverpool at Nou Camp scoring 2 goals including a magnificent free kick. Barca wins 3 -0.

2. Liverpool goes ballistic in the return leg at Anfield and score 4 goals. Messi plays badly and is missing but Suarez does a Gareth Bale and pulls one goal back. Just one goal!
Or perhaps Pique does a Sergio Ramos and nods in one goal and Barca qualifies ahead of Liverpool for the final. Just one goal!

3. Barca meets Tottenham in the final and Messi puts in a world class performance with 2 Goals and an assist.
Barca wins the UCL.

Is this not how a big club is supposed to operate?
Is this too much favour to ask of a team of 10 professionals mostly receiving over 100 thousand pounds per week?

Why does Messi have to be the only one to deliver in 13 games out of 13 games of the UCL?

What in the world leads you to believe that the game that was lost was the game that mattered most?

Guy chill ooh.

jpmoriarti:
Nobody is trying to diss Messi. He's the oppressor here trying to claim the victim. He's trying to manipulate his way out of the club, now that the going got tougher. Expoilting all the
weak links in his contract. He's pathetic! He led Barca to our worst show in European football against Bayern and not a single apology to the fans have come from a so called captain and club legend.

The going got tougher since 2016.

And he's stayed put carrying a bunch of unproductive players.

We have evidence that we have won 3 of the last 5 la liga titles and reached the semi finals of the UCL almost singlehandedly on Messi.

He did not leave when the going got tougher.

He has stayed for 5 years under tough conditions.

And then the club has been sacking coaches and selling younger players including swapping Arthur for Pjanic.
A lot of players 70 percent as legendary as Messi would have run away a long time ago.

Sommyroy10:
Doesn't he have 4 UCL?

Totti?

When??

jpmoriarti:
Messi is a fool. He should go and sit down. He can stay or he can leave. His attitudes are uncaptain like and shocking for someone who has stayed 20 years at the club. Totti will never treat Roma like this.

lol

Chill out Bro.

Maybe Totti would if he won with them 3 UCĹs and 10 Scudettos and they tried to diss him.

DissTroy:
Maybe it's to scare other interests away. Clubs like Juventus would certainly be scared by that weekly wage. The only clubs left who would still stand strong would be Man.City and PSG.

But the proposed Man. City deal involves him playing in the MLS for two years and Messi doesn't want that. He's stated he'd like to play in his childhood club before retiring as a player. The Man. City deal would thwart that.

What's certain is, now that the wage has been made known, most clubs would rein in their fantasies. But Barça would be on aggressive marketing this time to get their money's worth.

Messi is more than any other player. La Liga waded in because Messi leaving would have affected the La Liga's ratings, value and income. It's more than football. There's business involved.

Few days ago, Barcelona modeled their new kit and fans were surprised to see them photoshopping Messi into the pictures. It's almost like they were telling Messi, "Bro, I don't know what your plans are but this divorce would not work. We are married for life."

The marketing would be worth it. I expect a mini-movie like "Messi and Barcelona: Eternal Love Without Boundaries". The marketing would be sick.

lol

This final contract year na die.

Barca will try to squeeze out every single penny from off him.


Whatever i am glad he's staying anyway.

Me myself I cannot divorce Messi from Barca.

DissTroy:
I think that crazy Bartomeu is just putting up a front for the public. The reports are that Barcelona have upped Messi's weekly way to £1.5 million weekly. They are bribing Messi to stay in broad daylight.
https://twitter.com/indykaila/status/1301479556411461632?s=20

First time in 5 years, there's been a leak of his actual wage from the club. Trying to match the wage Man. City reportedly proposed for him.

Now that's absurd.

Even if the club offers him that I sincerely hope he rejects it and plays on for the season.

By the end of the season he could evaluate the situation and either accept a pay rise or move on.

And am 100 percent sure that If Messi sees a good project from Koeman he will stay beyond next summer.

Those who don't want Messi at Barca can now go to another club.

DissTroy:
...And it happened: The board, club officials, the players and fans alike begged Messi to stay, campaigned visibly online and offline, and even using children who are fans to manipulate him. He's staying from the latest indications.

The Barça universe begged Messi to stay at Barcelona. Even La Liga waded into the matter but never batted an eyelid when Papa Perez chased Penaldo away from MADrid while Ramos insulted the Portuguese model during the exit process and after.

Never before has one single player brought a sport to a standstill. Messi did it. So much for the disgruntled claims of "we need to rediscover another pattern." Messi is the pattern.

Se queda.

Beverlyjean:
Akuko... messi is a fraud...answer y he dint revisit the contract in june...u still hv failed to explain

Are you dyslexic?

All the events that triggered his frustration happened after June 30th.

Are you normal,? Can't you read?

Beverlyjean:
[s]Still posting rubbish...messi and his fams trying to play smart ... the pandemic is no excuse to breach a contract... he should hv revisited the contract in June, its as simple as abc , but u messi minions always try to act smart but end up being foolish [/s]

The spirit of the June 30th agreement is to align with the season ending.

It's Barca who are trying to be dubious here not Messi.
But you're either not too smart enough or too mischievous to agree with this.

If Messi is staying, he's only doing this to avoid a protracted legal battle.

And don't be fooled; behind the scenes, Barca would seriously be begging Messi to stay.

Don't be fooled!