Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[Andresmessi]

Why would he do this? What benefit is it to Pep if he is to stay at Barca?

Surely he'd want Messi to be happy and help increase his chances of managerial success in the near futures.

Cos he's Pep and he's weird haha. He's said repeatedly in the press that he think Messi should never leave Barcelona. Wouldn't be surprised if he told him that too. Of course it may not happen, but it'd be classi

 

[domalino]

Because he is an absolutely fantastic player. His game has dipped and it will dip further and therefore I commit the crime of rating Mbappe and Neymar ahead of him.

But it hasn't dipped.

I think the problem is you just don't watch him play. If you watched him and Barca regularly this season you'd have seen that he was as good as ever just in a deeper position. He can score 35-40 league goals a season if he was up in the front 3 with a good midfield but Barca surrounded him with Vidal, Rakitic, Sergio Roberto.

So instead he moved deeper, became more of a creator and broke all assist records in spain whilst also scoring 26 in 32. And thats despite Suarez being genuinely past it and Griezmann playing like a fan who won a competition. Messi this season with Suarez from 2015 would have got 40 assists, that's not an exaggeration.

This is why he's leaving. He knows the team around him is holding him back and no matter how good he is, he cant make them CL contenders. If he was on the way out, he'd just sit back in Barcelona and collect his €100m next season, then the €70m loyalty fee, and in a few months he'd negotiate another 400m contract with Barcelona to see him out.

 

[Centurions]

That fence must be really uncomfortable Nev...

 

[Marvin]

Hang on a second let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Neymar goals last few seasons

39 - 31 - 20 - 28 - 23 -19

Could you explain what trend you see in these stats?

That's a downward trend - in no small part due to injury.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Is that the rag shithouse wanker who was sports editor at the MUEN ?

If it is, he was already on our case when we were shit. I remember he always used to pick out one of our few quality players, as going to the swamp about 2 weeks before we played them or a big game. Knikladze was going there several times.

Out of all the subversive fucks trying to do City down, he is one of the originals.

This will be like having his balls chewed off by Piranha fish, but every week, for years.

Have it you ****.

 

[Centurions]

That's a downward trend - in no small part due to injury.

So a downward trend with mitigating factors then?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

One of these threads wouldn’t be complete without a pile-in on @Marvin for declaring that our putative target is too old.

 

[The1nvisibleMan]

 

[toffee balls]

At the time of the transfers Neymar and Mbappe were better players. Messi is the best player ever but not now. He is regarded with awe but those who argued that his decline was imminent were right. We have seen that decline, however he's still a great player and the players transfer request makes a deal feasible.

The deal is also attractive for the economic and feel good factor associated with it. It would be a mission for every City player and fan for City to win trophies for Messi. It would entirely change the perception of our club across the world. The media, Klopp etc emphasise the cost but they forget that it works for barcelona in terms of revenue generation, and they don't have international clubs like the City Football Group.

Sort of agree with Mbappe but Messi will be still better than Neymar when he is 50.

 

[Silva'sGold]

Good god a caption I can't read and that picture, don't do that to me!