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barackodam:
Because he will not leave again abi?

At 33, Xavi and Iniesta already had secondary roles on the pitch and were only coming to stabilize or change and win match for us.

At 33, Messi still has 3 years left to offer us.....smh


Una no go learn

At 33 Xavi and Iniesta were done.

At 33 Messi is a bit diminished but still better and stronger than all of your favourite footballers.

Begin from 365 days back and tell me any footballer on the planet that posted better numbers than Messi.

Just 365 days.

It is preposterous for any body to suggest to sell Messi on account of the performances of the team.

WTF!

khingTony:
Am I the only one that thinks Messi Should leave? Barcelona needs rebuilding, and a rebuilding will not be effective if its still around Messi.

The "Pass to Messi" tactics it part of what got us where we are today.

No you are not the only one.

There are quite a few of Us.

Yes I have come to accept that Messi should leave; not because Barca will be any better without him.
But because he needs to stop being loyal and look out for himself.
Let him leave and maximize the remaining 3 years of his career.
Let him go to be better managed team with a formidable squad and leave the game with a loud ovation. Instead of destroying his legacy playing at a dying club.

But then good luck with your rebuilding.

Barca is finished. You think you'd get another Messi or Ronaldinho?

Be prepared to wait another 20 years.

Barca has officially gone the way of A.C. Milan and Manchester United.
A.C. Milan and Man U actually thought they were rebuilding.
Look at them now.

Rebuilding is a process. Thou we are always late, it's still a process.

No coming back from this 'grass'

FBS:
That got me laughing. LLoyd banks. damn, you guys are not nice.

Abi Tyra Banks.

A40:
Which Bank? Afribank or Bank PHB? Maybe Lloyd Banks

E neva do?

A40:
You didn't talk about the clean penalty Lyon were denied abi. Eku ise

Like Mourinho would say,
I didn't see it.

A40:
Lol this Messi shey e no like challenge ni? Is he Catalan abi why he wan die put for Barcelona? I'd like to see him in Man City or any other contender European team. Hell even PSG. It's gotten pretty stale and boring and it's only going to get worse for both sides moving forward

I guess in his heart he feels he owes Barca his loyalty considering how Barca nurtured him as a sick infant.

Besides a clubs keeps on increasing your pay without complaining and paying you 500 gs a week.

If na you which "challenge" will you go and look for again?


Then again, moving around the top clubs in Europe like City, Bayern, Madrid and PSG is not a challenge but an ambition or career.

A good example of a challenge is what Maradona did at Napoli. Went to Naples and conquered.

I would love to see more top players go to second tier teams like Valencia, Roma, Spurs, Dortmund, and Lyon and win the League and UCL.

Na dat one be challenge.

Messi has already had big challenges working with an incompetent board, over 8 different mediocre coaches and a depreciated squad.

It would be nice sha to see him get more ambitious by moving to PSG, City, or even Bayern.

GrammarNazi1:
I agree.

There was a time people here were bashing Dembele but I was seriously rooting for him.

If Dembele can only stay healthy then he's got that left wing locked down for the next 7 years.

IMO.


Just check out a front 3 of

Dembele Lautaro Messi..

Veeque:
Did you just say forget Dembele

Do you know the relief I feel when that boy plays? The feeling you have when you know there is someone in our team that will destroy opponent defense. The last I had that feeling was when neymar was in the team.

Dembele is the fastest, trickiest player in Barca. The 2nd best attacker. Mention who is better than Dembele in that team when it comes to effectiveness. Suarez?? Fati? Griezmann? Who?

If that boy is properly managed, trust me, he'll excel. If he could do it at dortmund, why can't he do the same at barca. He's 23.
Other attackers like Fati, Pedri, Trincao, konrad will help reduce the pressure and ensure good rotation.

The future isn't lost. We need a good manager to bring the best out of the youths in the team. Lastly, we need a good defense.

I love Dembele.

I absolutely love Dembele.

He's the best option we have for now to end the problem of Messi-dependency.

But looking at his injury hisyory can Dembele give us 20 games in a season?

Out of 50 games?

Well I really do hope that he can be well managed as you put it.

Sulele04:
Barca ucl,laliga,copa del rey 2020-21 treble winning team
griezzman
fati messi dembele
puig de jong
firpo umtiti araujo roberto
ter stegen

manager:mauricio pochettino

Sorry but only 3 of this team deserve a place in the starting line up in a treble winning team.

Messi
Puig
De Jong.

Are you still putting hope in Dembele?

Just forget Dembele.

Obaseki's boys must be mopped up.

On election day he will know what he did to himself by going to APC.

Edo money has been wasted on PDP tax collectors already.

Ize Iyanmu is the next governor.

Choi

Make Barca just land this guy na. Messi no go dey bother him head with assists again.

haymekus:
You have countless spoken how important Vidal is to this team and how important he would be next season, even to the extent of saying he should always start ahead of puig


Barely 48 hours ago same you was analysing how Vidal would be the second most important player against Bayern, and just like every other game he has played since he came to Barcelona, he kept on running up and down like a headless chicken


No player has been better than Messi since the past five years, we all know that, but you can’t still compare his performance now and that of 5 years ago. The fact that coaches are been forced to play his friends is something I certainly don’t understand, if he and his friends thinks they are too big to defend or to be left on the bench, then they should be shown the door.

The bolded is a lie from the pit of hell. Repent of your lying ways.

Vidal was not important against Bayern yes.

So name the players among the 13 that featured that were important.

Oya name names.

This your Vidal obsession remains suspicious.

See him mouth like they should be shown the door.


You guys simply do not get the importance of building a solid team around a once in a lifetime superstar.

Remove Messi and replace him with the ancestor Lewandowsky from Bayern in the same Barca team.

What would happen?

Make una pursue Messi na.
Another club will gladly grab him faster than a rabbit gets fuuccked.

And for another 3 seasons we will be fighting with Sevilla and Valencia for champions league places.

openmine:

Yawn...when they lack words to defend their pathetic behind,they resort to name calling hence display their petty self!
Its also nice to see that you have classified yourself as an As.swipe with full benefits



So it was Marcelo that fouled Laporte and not dembele the goalscorer?
This is what happens when a glorified Dun.dee is watching UCL with his 2D cathode ray tube TV!

Please say more....so that I can confuse you once again!
Your ex side chic must have suffered enough...I am happy she received sense!

Lol

All of thesee editings show that my words hurt you deeply. Hehehehe

I know you will still nag like my next ex side chic.

Just say it wasn't a foul...

FergieRaww:
"VAR has been a tool" pls expatiate on this?!

was Lyon able to afford VAR that Pap wasn't able to? or was the conspiracy included in Sterling's miss to be on the conspiracy not to let Man city advance??

my guy you don't know more than the technicals in that VAR room .. so shut it!

Why are you taking it personally?

Is this the first time you re hearing about a VAR error?

I understand you supported Lyon over City but you shouldn't act like my opinion is going to make UEFA cancel the match na.

Which kain busy body be this na?

Relax.

Nobody is going to say that because Man City are out then all the teams they beat should come back to the competition.
UEFA won't do that, it's against the rules.

So relax bro.

The French league and The Bundesliga have all 4 semi finalists.

They ended their leagues much earlier than the Serie A, La Liga and the EPL.

I wonder if the extra month rest benefited PSG, Leipzig and Lyon.

usbcable:
Lyon were not lucky bro.

"Manchester City have played Lyon 3 times this season.Lyon beat them at the Etihad,only drew at Lyon because of a late Aguero equaliser and comprehensively destroyed them yesterday.But City lost yesterday because "Pep overthinks things." the tomfoolery on display is amazing."
---- Biola Kazeem

how on earth is that Lucky

I wouldnt say lucky.

But rewatch Lyon's second goal that made it 2-1 and tell me why that goal was allowed to stand.

Even with Stevie Wonder as centre referee and a sheep in charge of the VAR room, that goal shouldn't stand.

I really don't understand how VAR works any longer.

openmine:
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Yawn....from shamelessly defending mancity to unnecessary balderdash!
Please if you don't have a PRO to offer mancity,just go and sleep!
Your stale rants are hilarious!

Please when you are ready to carry placard and protest let me know

Tufiakwa is currently a mancity fan name

Confucius says; When someone uses a lot of emojis they are empty upstairs.

Asswipe.

Just say it wasn't a foul by Marcelo on Laporte and drop winning all over the place like my ex side chic.

openmine:
[s][/s]
[s]Your stale and empty ramblings are not more than the last kicks of a dying house....

But Come ohh did mancity pay you any money for this hilarious and dead beat damage control?

Okay nah....since you are feeling pained,goan protest at the Uefa office nah?

Lyon fan kor,Nylon blade nii

If you don't know who I support,then you are actually the newbi[/s]e here!

Don't body yasef.

You must be one of those numerous viewing centre fans who have flooded nairaland lately.

Imagine someone who watched the game last night still disputing that foul.

Surely someone was blocking your view at the viewing centre when that goal happened..



Tufiakwa...

usbcable:
Messi is doing the best he can honestly.
The challenge right now is the rest of the whole of Barcelona does not want to do anything more than Messi does.

from the pitch to off the pitch.

Messi staying should be good to help rebuild but sadly and unbelievably it is the staying that has not made the remaining 10 man on the pitch pull their weight to do what is expected of them.

The best way forward is for him to stay and the squad is given guidance and rebuilt. But how that will be done is hard to see with what is available in the team and its staff and board.

But as a rival fan I pray that challenge is never resolved

Honestly the most reasonable thought on this matter.

Unlike some of our 'viewing center' fan boys expecting Barca to clear out at least 8 senior players in one fell swoop.

Me sef don tire for the matter.

I don had a change of heart.

Let Messi leave. Right now he will win much more outside Barca than in Barca.
He should stop trying to be Barca's superman.

He has a million and one things to win as soon as he snaps his fingers and says "come get me somebody"

Let us do the rebuilding..

openmine:
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Yawn
[s]Thats what the mancity fans always say....now they are hiding under another club to justify their argument!
If you are not a mancity fan which I highly and hilariously doubt,please refrain from wailing more than the bereaved!

Mancity has lost a quarterfinal game again against a supposed less fancied Lyon team!
They had glaring chances in the second half to bury Lyon after being level!
That was their opportunity!

But as usual,they fell like pack of cards when they were meant to rise to the occasion and prove they are a team to be reckoned with!

Even their number one fan here has accepted that mancity weren't good enough and deserved to be out and yet you are carrying their matter on top head like akara and agege bread?

Abeg go and transfer your angry rants else where or make good use of your energy in another thread [/s]

Man City was robbed by allowing that second goal to stand.

My Lyon fan.



Yoire probably an EPL fan boy from Chelsea or Man U praying for City to fail.

Saw dust filled..........

Adakintroy:
That's what loyalty is in the first place. In good and bad times. It's you that can't interprete it well. They were days baca were hammering Bayern like God knows what and all big teams where afraid of baca and Messi.

They may not have won the champions League in recent yrs but they have dominated the league for decades. But just one bad season in whic they still finished close second and quarter final exit everyone is sayin he is finish. That's poor reasoning. The standard Messi and baca has set is too high that's just the problem.

It is loyalty that is causing him all these insults despite struggling to drag 10 other bums through a football match.

He needs to go to Bayern or PSG and win more titles before he retires.

If i were his father I will drag him out of Barca.

Disown him if he doesnt want to leave.

OfficialJayy:
Was bale also a man utd player when cr7 won the trophy in 2008??

Oga, make we bone talk, without neymar, iniesta and xavi, Messi cant win anything outside spain

No Bale wasn't

But Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Tevez, Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand were.
Coached by the great Sir Alex Ferguson.

But for 4 years he flopped at Madrid, winning only 1 la liga.

Until Bale came and bailed him out.

usbcable:
yOU ALL ARE MISSING THE POINT IN MY POST.

I didnt say Messi is at fault. But BARCELONA FC as a club lost the match.

instead of talking of the club and and everyone deserving more.

y'all are here consoling Messi. Was Messi the only person that lost? Was he the only person that is emotionally attached to the club?

For instance you all are being bashed terribly here on nairaland because of that debacle but your shallow prism of seeing thinsg could only see Messi's loss as against your personal losses.

Well I shouldn't be surprised when you are all MESSI FC fans. Recall wishing him success against your own national team.

Wehen he retires maybe all of you will stop football too

Point out to me where I consoled Messi before you dragged me into this.

Oya show me the post where I talked about Messi before your post yesyerday calling me out.

Am waiting USBcable.

I realise that whenever you have nothing to say you resort to the consistent blackmail about my being a Messi fan.

Whenever you have got nothing more to say!

Adakintroy:
Every club wants Messi. Humble respect full and loyal all the qualities of a good human being. Has twice the money many sports man out there but still carries himself about with great humility.

Consistently loyal to baca who made it possibl. Always look t the sky and point at it when he scores.

It's not his faulty the word no longer can interprete these simple human qualities of truth humility and self control very well.

Loyalty to Barca is what is killing Messi.

He needs to take the easy way out and run to PSG, City or Bayern and win more UCLs and Ballon dor till he wins 10.

He should stop trying to be Barca's superman.

OfficialJayy:
Ronaldo went to juve to win the ucl, and last time I checked, he still has two more years on his contract, so calm down bro

Afterall the Argentine midget have not won the ucl for like half a century now, so why are you rushing the GOAT??

Good.

So until he wins it just STFU.

Juve may need to sign out of favour Gareth Bale again because we all remember how Real Madrid signed Ronaldo and continued to fail in the champions league for 4 years until they signed Bale.
4 years! Ronaldo failed.!!

Bale then came in and won it for Madrid.

openmine:
Why am I not perturbed by these pity filled write-ups coming from wailing mancity fans....as usual,they are always the victims!

Oryah go and stop Lyon from going to the semis nah?

Perennial quarter finalists...una no dey shame!

I am sure that if mancity had played Norwich in a UCL quarterfinal game,they will still not win

Please accept your L in peace and stop this wailing as if you are from a less privileged league!

Even De bryne and Guardiola have accepted they just weren't good enough and have received their L in peace but their unfortunate and pathetic fans will always look for excuses just like they always do every season!

With all your star studded players,you could not even manage a single shot on goal for over 40 mins....Abeg them use quarterfinals swear for una?

No worry next season,na dggrcbhcxfghvx fc go beat una for quarterfinals

I am not a Man City fan and I didn't watch the match with my brain tucked in between my thighs.

Unless yours was neatly tucked in between your thighs you ought to have noticed a clear trip on Laporte by the guy who eventually scored Dembele.

What De Bryyne and Guardiola think shouldn't determine how you connect your viewing eyes to your thinking brain when watching a football match.

SEGLIZ:
this season is just a bottling season.
the champions league is currently experiencing it's fair share of tsunami and pandemic.

Some how only clubs from France and Germany are left.

2 counties which stopped playing football since early July.

They had over 1 month of rest.

Could fatigue be a factor for English and Spanish sides?

Beverlyjean:
He wants to run...a real goat carries his team to the top, regardless of position, ask naradona , he carried napoli from nothing to something... ask pele , manor player in Brazil winning their first 3 WC... ask ronaldo, carried Portugal from almost to certain... this little man just wants a team that will make it easy for him... so all that mouth that he is the greatest is because of xavi, iniesta and Daniel Alves... now we have seen y he can't win anything for Argentina... if this guy joins juve .. he will turn to Wilson oruma

So why did Ronaldo run to Juve,?

To win the Champions league or to win 20 consecutive serie a titles?

If I was Messi I would take the easy way out quit Barca immediately.

Go to City or even Bayern.

Win league titles, win the UCL.

I was his father i would bundle him out of Barca.

He should stop struggling to lift a dead club.

He should fuucck loyalty and do what every other big superstar like Ronaldo would do, flee to a more stable club.

TheGoodJoe:
However, both Ferdinand and Hart believe there was clear contact on Laporte, albeit unintentional, and the goal shouldn't have stood.

"I think it's a foul," Ferdinand told BT Sport.

"If I'm on that pitch, it's got to be. He's connected and he's the one who went on to score. City were dominating at that time.

"There is 100 per cent contact. I don't understand how they can't call that? People will be saying conspiracy theories now if you're a City fan.

"I believe that's a foul and it's the man who goes on to score the goal."


"It's not intentional, that's clear but there is a clash of legs," Hart added.

"Does it then go with the referee's decision because he's seen it?"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-var-ferdinand-hart-18776960.amp

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Funny if anyone still thinks there is no gang up against Manchester City.

Corrupt folks.

There's most definitely a gang up.

Probably for defeating UEFA at CAS?.

openmine:
So the outrageous misses from sterling and Jesus were also part of the conspiracy right?
This is why the likes of mancity will continue to be seen as perennial quarter-finalists......

Are you new to football?

Who doesn't miss?

Their misses are not your business. A team shouldn't lose it's right to win matches simply because it has missed 1 million chances.

That second goal should never have been allowed to stand. Except we've got blind people at the VAR room...

It is the most obvious foul i've seen in a very long time.