Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[Dax777]

Lautaro? Really?

I threw up reading that

 

[RayCTID]

So in reach of Messi then, so you’d assume they’d meet not chat on a phone when in the same City or region at least. My point being we could action something pretty quickly and also be able to meet the players entourage without having to fly in.

Probably spoke to him before the start of his break

 

[Silva_Spell]

How the fuck are people who live on a football forum not capable of distinguishing between a striker and a LW who scores a lot of goals?

Played as a striker when he won La decima did he? That'll be news to absolutely everyone who watched him play LW in a front 3 with Benzema and Bale.

He played plenty of games both under Ancelotti and Zidane as a ST, albeit mostly in a front 2. Those 138 goals I mentioned weren't as a LW.

You're right about La Decima, I thought I recalled Bale playing on the left back then. But CR7 played up top plenty of times during Zidane's CL wins

Seriously how can this be confusing? Messi hasn't played as a striker, ever. He played as a false 9 when he was a kid, because he could run like a lunatic, and he had a striker, David Villa who would go into the striker positions when he dropped into midfield. He's not going play up front for us if Aguero gets injured and Jesus is in Barcelona.

If Jesus goes, we have to buy another striker, or the squad has a massive gaping weakness just like last season when we thought relying on Laporte being fit for every game was no big deal. Pep's not that stupid, Messi doesn't want the club he joins to be selling off vital parts to afford him.

There's no doubt that he will play upfront for us at times, regardless of Aguero's fitness

Like I said at the start, It depends on the team and setup. I think Messi as a F9 can work with the players we have

 

[domalino]

He played plenty of games both under Ancelotti and Zidane as a ST, albeit mostly in a front 2. Those 138 goals I mentioned weren't as a LW.

You're right about La Decima, I thought I recalled Bale playing on the left back then. But CR7 played up top plenty of times during Zidane's CL wins

He played as a second striker of Benzema who did all the striker work and let Ronaldo have a free role which actually differed very little from his normal role.

Nothing at all like leading the line on your own.

 

[Dax777]

By the way, those panicking about Jesus leaving - John Macken would score 50 a season with Messi in the team..

Nah! 49, maybe. Definitely NOT 50

 

[colin's bell helmet]

Any news on this messi fella?.... He looks good on his YouTube vids but anyone looks good on YouTube like that belter Pollock scored at maine Road when he lobbed it over that defender and headed it over the keeper in the 90's... What a player.

 

[RayCTID]

Jon Macken doesn't have Gabriel Jesus' work rate.

 

[Silva_Spell]

He played as a second striker of Benzema who did all the striker work and let Ronaldo have a free role which actually differed very little from his normal role.

Nothing at all like leading the line on your own.

I doubt anyone is talking about Messi leading the line on his own.

 

[LongsightM13]

Definitely a load of shite if you have a dig. Have you seen the other stuff they've posted? Fake letters from Txiki and claims of world exclusive announcements. Better off deleting that tbh mate.

The biggest bullshitter and fantasist on the internet. He used to claim to be a journalist when he was in fact working double shifts at KFC and a curry house in Leicester

 

[brightwelleyes]

Just a thought...
Where is Pep currently? Doesn’t his wife now live back in Barcelona due to being a partner in a law firm is it? Either way she lives there and the kids live with him in Manchester. So is he currently back in Barcelona perhaps? I genuinely don’t know but if he is...

Graham Hunter on 93:20 earlier alluded in the least subtle way possible that Pep and Messi will be talking again soon and not in England.