At this stage, I really doubt that Messi will join us. Just my opinion.
Please can you refrain from putting this sort of negative energy into this thread :)
Seriously though, I know people are looking at his performances on the pitch and connecting that with his happiness at the club. The fact that he's doing well this season and the team are playing well is fantastic, but it doesn't change Barcelona's financial position nor does it change the weight of things that have been put on the Messi family by the club. It's a little bit like Pep at the end. You get drowned by the politics of it all.
There's something else which has also stuck with me for a long time. Pep going to Barcelona to see Leo last summer and sitting down with him. That's not fleeting to me. Doesn't feel like a 'moment' that will pass. Feels more like Leo has decided that he wants to go and he wants to know if there's a place in Pep's team for him.
Now it may well be that Pep told him "don't leave Barcelona, don't come to England, you should stay here until you retire". But then IMO he could say that over the phone, he doesn't need to sit down with him. So if he was pitching to the player last summer and it didn't come off, I'm struggling to see why WE would decide this summer that we just don't want him.
I also think it's interesting Omar did an interview after the window closed saying that Leo, Cristiano, and Neymar are the only three players who generate the level of revenues which justifies the salaries they are paid - and that was directly in answer to the question about how City would marry their message of financial sustainability with attempting to sign him last summer.
Again, as I say with all my Messi related posts. This could all just be confirmation bias on my part (or wishful thinking however you want to categorise it!)
