I still maintain after the last week or so that there is an agreement in principle (very detailed though) for messi to come to CFG (and to city to start with). And the more I think about it the more I think it’s been there for a while.
All of this posturing is about how messi leaves Barca, he wants them to succeed going forward and want to leave without upsetting the membership at Barca (doesn’t care about current board however).
We are therefore looking at brinkmanship between Barca and team messi currently. Messi wants to leave with a small payment and wave goodbye in good faith to the fans and be remembered for the 20 good years and not the last couple of weeks.
The board however have thrown their toys out of the pram and want as much money out of it, and to make it all about messi being the bad guy.
Messi holds the cards here I think but is playing it very calm, very silently and professionally - who does that remind you of ?
