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jpmoriarti:
I agreed with the guy you blasted. We have relied on Messi brilliance for far too long. While it brought us lots of waoooh moments, in the last four years, it has brought nothing but heartbreak and devastation. So we must try something different. Learn to play as team again.

I am completely unperturbed with Messi announcements that he wishes to leave. While I'll miss him as best player in the world, I think it is right step in right direction for Barcelona as a team. We'll suffer first but a good coach should be able to get the team back to its foot without him.

Okay, you agree that Barca is not on Sevilla's level?
Alright..


We've been over this, over and over and over again;

What Barca needs to do is to get their acts together and buy a player that can complement Messi.
Like they did Neymar.

Even Dembele was on his way to becoming another good outlet to play through but for injuries.

Not stacking up mediocre and one dimesional players like Griezman.

All of us here have the right to do our fanship however we want.

For me, it would hurt to see Messi leave at 33; not because he's no longer the best player in the world;
but because the club cannot fathom a method of playing a plan B.?

In another 2 years we can think of letting Messi go but letting him go now smirks of pure foolishness and arrogance.

LordAdamX:
[s]Whatever you say.

I'm sure PSG, Man City, Juve and co are lining up because they were inspired by an 8:2 hammering with Messi strolling about and handing in a free transfer request afterwards.

Messi's footballing ability is an afterthought. He's only done it at Barca and that was with a very specific personnel. In Argentina, he has underwhelmed.

Juve has a worse midfield than Barca.
Man City does not have a defense.
PSG apart from this year, which required a ton of luck, have been serial bottlers, so Barca 2.0.
Manchester United needed a certain Bruno Fernandes to start looking like they could compete.
Messi will not be able to produce the energy for Flick's Bayern. He can not replicate Muller's dirty work and that's the only place he can fit in that squad.
Inter are a work in progress.

So if any of these teams are looking at Messi and thinking, "You know what, this guy would fix our respective sporting issues"; their entire sporting directorate should be disbanded.

But they are not thinking that way, because they don't like in Messi's backside. They're looking at the numbers from the marketing coup that'd be a Messi buy and saying, "With numbers like that, who gives a f*ck about sporting reasons." I understand why you can't accept that. You've had an entire city, club, fan base, and journos suck up to you forever; it's about to get real.

Or you think Messi would supervise a 4:0 thrashing against Manchester United and Cityzens wouldn't send shots at him? E go shock una. Pack your load and make sure you burn the bridge with the only club that can tolerate you wussies. Messi fans are the most deluded and overpampered sporting personality fan base in the world.[/s]

-Lord

Sorry i really don't mean to be rude but this right up here,
is a load of horseshit.

Wow,

This ain't football no more mehn,

This is hatred.

Gotta sign out for now...

LordAdamX:
I b tok am here say all this 13 yr old virgins dey mislead am, dem fil say I jor open mouth.

Club legend, club legend, you dey hand transfer request to leave for free. Are you not mental?

Over the last 4 years, he has dropped places in everyone who isn't a Messi stan's GOAT list, me inclusive.

Core Barca fans are finally seeing what Argentines and CR7 fans have been saying forever. When the going gets tough, Messi is that last person you want in your corner. System fraud!

-Lord

You can't be serious.

I bet you wouldn't say 99 percent of the shiit you say if this wasn't a faceless forum.

Damn!

One would be forgiven to think that you've met Messi before and you guys have a beef going on or something.

fourfourfour:
and your point is

Messi has been in stress.
La Liga is stress.

LordAdamX:
Only you can take that away from what I typed.

My point is whoever is buying Messi is doing so for the marketing. Sporting wise, it may or may not work out, but that wouldn't matter because they're getting the bag.

It's different from every other player not named Ronaldo, who are assessed first by their sporting contribution and any other thing is an add-on.

Ergo, making a big fuss about big clubs jostling for Messi's signature says nothing about how they judge his sporting ability. Just that his addition is a net positive from a commercial point of view.

As for my opinion on if he's currently good enough for any of the top teams, you don't want to hear it.

-Lord

Totally wrong.

A lot of teams would want Messi for the marketing advantage and for his footballing ability as the best footballer in the world.

The only snag would be his age. At 33, which would mean the club paying so much only for a 2 or 3 year service.

Age is part of the sporting reason which was why I agreed with you.

Even at 33, he is still better than everybody else.

So the only snag is that longevity is no longer an advantage he has.

fourfourfour:
[s]Please remove Bayern from that list, we are talking about real clubs not broke ass thieves. Let's wait for Messi to be free before mentioning Bayern.

Juve won't sign him, they have Ronaldo, enough marketing and publicity, except they sell him to PSG and buy Messi.

Messi joins Madrid and destroys his Barca legacy. Won't happen but Perez can be Perez.

United, hmm It would be better for Messi to stay in barca than join a far worse clueless board than that which is at Barca. Woodward will likely want fans to think this is the signing they have been waiting for but too clueless to be able to actualize it.

That leaves PSG, Chelsea and Inter, you left City out. There's little connection between inter signing Messi and Messi actually going there.

PSG is the only possible destination for Messi. His friend is there, they can pay him tens of millions per year. PSG would like to make a statement after losing UCL. Ligue 1 is far easier than EPL, Messi has shown he doesn't like stress.[/s]

There are only 2 stressful leagues; the EPL and La Liga.

Others
Bundesliga
French liga
Serie A

Are famers' leagues without stress, where one team is so much bigger than the other 19.

LordAdamX:
Age doesn't matter.

If a Ronaldo or Messi is on the market, you buy no questions asked. Then ask your coach to fit either in. If he can't, he gets the boot. The next one can't, he gets the boot. Any player who can't, gets the boot as well. In fact, if your Sporting Director disagrees, he gets the boot as well.

It's when you don't have the money or have a strict transfer policy (looking at you Bayern), that the age excuse crops up.

PSG had contact with Ronaldo earlier this year, he's 35 turning 36. And if they're getting Messi, they'd get Ron next year.

Of course, in the press, they'd say it's for the UCL, but everybody in the club management will cash out. It's marketing / star power. No cons, only pros.

Wia is usbcable sef?

-Lord

Age doesn't matter you say!

So what you really mean by sporting reasons is that bar age, Messi is not good enough to play for Bayern or Madrid or PSG or Juve or any of these teams?

Is that what you're really telling me?

khingTony:
All these stuppidd guys saying Barcelona will be like sevilla and Real Sociedad when Messi leaves should not be tagged a football fan at the first place, the Truth is, even with messi, Barcelona was not as good as sevilla.


Sevilla cannot bottle a 4-1 lead against Roma, Sevilla cannot bottle a 3-0 lead against Liverpool, Sevilla cannot be beaten 8-2 by Bayern Munich, Sevilla cannot lose 1-2 to Osasuna when they are fighting for the league title.


Barcelona has been declining for years now even with Messi, but why we finished second in the league was because we dominated the likes of Eibar and Alaves.

In last year's UCL, Jordi Alba in the first half had a very good opportunity to score, which could have put the tie to rest, but what did he do? He passed to Messi. In that match Messi was not the best player, In the match against Bayern, he wasn't the best player, In the match against Roma, he wasn't the best player.

Messi is a good player but over the years, we've been beaten by teams that does not have Messi on their side, why? It's because they work as a team and do not rely on one person to do the job, Messi leaving now is a very sad event, but I think it's time to rediscover another pattern of football.

See this kain kindergarten analysis.

In this year's UCL Henderson had a chance to score against Athletico but passed to Salah who missed.

Kroos had a chance to score against Lyon but passed to Benzema who missed.

It happens in all teams, all the time.

What stench are you vomiting?

Lewy has been scoring for Bayern, if Muller didn't score against Barca and Coman didn't score against PSG, can you say 100 percent Bayern would have won the UCL?

In last year's UCL if not for Messi do you think Barca would have crossed the second round?

Was someone else like Suarez or Dembele not supposed to play their own part and score 1 goal against Liverpool? Only 1 goal?

What kind of kai kai analysis be all this one sef?

khingTony:
All[s] these stuppidd guys saying Barcelona will be like sevilla and Real Sociedad when Messi leaves should not be tagged a football fan at the first place, the Truth is, even with messi, Barcelona was not as good as sevilla.


Sevilla cannot bottle a 4-1 lead against Roma, Sevilla cannot bottle a 3-0 lead against Liverpool, Sevilla cannot be beaten 8-2 by Bayern Munich, Sevilla cannot lose 1-2 to Osasuna when they are fighting for the league title.


Barcelona has been declining for years now even with Messi, but why we finished second in the league was because we dominated the likes of Eibar and Alaves.

In last year's UCL, Jordi Alba in the first half had a very good opportunity to score, which could have put the tie to rest, but what did he do? He passed to Messi. In that match Messi was not the best player, In the match against Bayern, he wasn't the best player, In the match against Roma, he wasn't the best player.

Messi is a good player but over the years, we've been beaten by teams that does not have Messi on their side, why? It's because they work as a team and do not rely on one person to do the job, Messi leaving now is a very sad event, but I think it's time to rediscover another pattern of football. [/s]

The thrashiest thrash ever typed by a human.

You want to compare Barca and Sevilla and you leave out the achievements of both teams and start extrapolating to a 3rd team?

Which kain stupidity be this one?

*Sevilla have not finished ahead of Barca the last 10 seasons and you say they are better because of Roma?
*Sevilla has a far inferior head to head and you say they are better because of Roma.?
*Sevilla have not made the UCL semi final in ages and you say they are better because of Roma?
*Barca have won 8 league titles recently and Sevilla none but they are better because of Roma? And then there are people liking the post?

Is your brain filled with sawdust or what?

LordAdamX:
Juve has the third best odds according to the bookmakers.

Bayern not interested.

Most clubs are interested for the marketing appeal not for sporting reasons.

-Lord

Think I agree with the bolded actually.
"Sporting reasons" is rather ambiguous here.

So,
Most clubs are interested for the marketing appeal and the ability.
Most clubs are not interested cuz of the age.

But they have got to weigh the pros and cons and buy.

LMAO.

It's absolute chaos on this thread tonight.

joviegghead:
They will.

I have faith in the players

Dembele, Griezmann, Fati, Puig, De Jong, Trincao, Pedri, etc.
We've got Talent. I don't know how long it will take to bring the absolute best out of them, but, I hope Koeman does his job well

joviegghead:
It's actually the best team asides PSG.

Whichever of the two clubs he goes to, will be lucky and will dominate football without mercy.

Besides David Silva has left. I want to see Messi and KDB, Sterling and Bernado. Jesus! (not Gabriel)

Or Messi, Neymar, Di Maria, Mbappe and Icardi.

Messi leaving to either clubs will cause a great unbalance in football.

Man City
PSG
Inter
Chelsea
Man U

Have all indicated interests.

Remains Juve, Bayern and Madrid.

Once it is confirmed all of the 8 teams above will indicate interest.

We are going to have a scenario where PSG, Man City, Inter, Chelsea, Man U, Bayern, Juve and Madrid would want to sign Messi.

It's coming.

Oldboss:
to be sincere Griezmann could start playing that free role which we saw him perform well at ATM

Griezman this, Griezman that.

For the umpteenth time there is nothing special about Griezman.

I cannot remember the last time we didn't have either of the top 2 players in the world putting on our jersey.

I could name 10 players better than Griezman.


We are Barca!
We are Barca!!
We are Barca!!!

SperoQuest:
Barcelona can never ever replace messi. let me explain. just like micheal jackson can never be replace in music. in football, "MESSI" can never be replace.

Common geroura here.

How can you be talking this nonsense when we have Dembele?.

Abeggi.

We are Barca! We are more than a club.

Messi has scored 50 but a fully fit Dembele guarantees us 60 league goals plus assists in a season.

Oldboss:
we have not find perfect replacement for Puyol, Xavi Iniesta Daniel Alves it is Messi own dat will be day worst him leaving means we will just be on the same level as Atm

He's talking about a Madrid that had Bale, Ramos, Modric, Casemiro, Kroos Marcelo, all performing when Ronaldo left.

Oldboss:
it will also be time for Griezmann Dembele to step up and show what they are capable of

That's what some deluded Barca fans are banking on.

These few weeks have opened my eyes to the kind of meatheads i've been sharing this thread with all these years.

Not that i even have any idea where they crawled out from anyway..

On a positive note this would finally give us the opportunity to win a trophy that we have never won before; the Europa league so we can have it in our cabinet.

SperoQuest:
Honestly speaking, my heart is pounding very fast. i dont think i will be able to sleep tonight. Let me explan. "Hearts all over the world will be broken. forget the toughness of some people in this thread, deep down they are having a mild panic attack. by tommorow people might suddenly lose weight and blood.

There is no toughness on this thread.

Just delusion and stupidity.

haymekus:
STFU!

This one is still living in delusion.

"We are Barca!"

Messi should just go to City or PSG.

"Do you know who I am?"

"I am a former minister"

"I am a lawyer"

Surprisingly today he did not say "I graduated from Cambridge"

We, Sevilla, Valencia and Bilbao don become mates be dat na.

I can swear that Real Madrid will win the next 5 la liga titles.

Reality can cut like a knife..

Bloody hell !!!

Angelfrost:
Well, the Op mentioned the question clearly in his write up. Didn't you read it??!

So we can only judge based on the op's statement.

We can't be sure of the context of the quserion since we didn't hear it like the rest part of the video.

Angelfrost:
Bro, trust me... I don't give 2 sheets about FFk and other charlatans in Nigeria. I have taken him apart severally on different threads...

I am concerned about professionalism, especially with recourse to journalism!!!... That journalist was not professional, simple!!! Of course, FFK went overboard in his reaction and response (Not surprised)... Any other better cultured individual would have responded better, but still would not have overlooked such poor attempt at fishing.

I thought calling a spade a spade was your thing, going by your stand on the NBA vs Elrufai matter??! What changed??! Because it is FFK??!

But the question the guy asked wasn't captured in this video.

So we neither know the question he asked, nor the way he presented ìt.

So how do you know what he asked?

Abi do you have a different video to this?

FirstbornWds:
Bros, talk, and avoid saying some things. How can you say Messi is tired?

Tell me, 3 players... What am I saying sef? Tell me one player that you think is better and can reciprocate the numbers he's pulling out since he turned 30? This guy outscores even the more brutal teenagers, assists better than every other playmaker, dribbles past anybody even better than most wingers and creates more chances and you have the audacity to call him tired. I'm afraid this isn't reality but foolishness ( no insult intended).

Chill out bro

That's what I've had to deal with the past 2 weeks.

You'd get used to it.

Nothing surprised me on this thread really.

Even in 2014 some people here wanted Messi sold.

Ayomi90:
So u think he came alone? Let them touch him nd see what will happen, journalist av their union, they have their lawyers nd the firm he works for won't take it easy.

Something that is recorded then after some minutes d guy is being manhandled, funny u think it makes sense sef.

Didn't You hear that his fellow journalists were even reprimanding him "see your life?"

Slymonster:
Typical naija mentality. Do you know who I am or who your talking to. It is simple, you have the right to answer or simply decline the question. I am ashamed of this country though. Even trump get embarrassed with questions, he declines when he doesn't suit him. The journalist colleagues were even telling the guy who asked the question, you see your life. Smh

I didn't hear that ooh.


Hehhehehehee

See your life?

Ayomi90:
Anything happen to him nd we know where it comes from.

And then if we know what will happen?
The man will just suffer beating or even injuries for that.

Don't get me wrong sha, I support the suggestion that he should have responded and faced the consequence like a man
but am just telling you what would have happened.

Angelfrost:
Don't mind them... Truly, the guy was paid for such mischief or maybe it was just a personal vendetta!!! Either way, I hope it was worth it... Smh.

Stop being silly.

Paid or not paid; FFK's response shows the typical problem of the Nigerian country where rich men feel they can violate poor men at will.

If Buhari or Amaechi threatens a journalist like that people like you wouldn't talk about paid or mischief.