Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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The reason I think this will ultimately happen is that Barca stand to gain very little from forcing him to stay. It'll be bad for PR, bad for their wage bill, bad for morale, and for all they know they'll be left with an unmotivated player who doesn't give them much on the pitch. The huge financial loss could be rewarded with a very bad season from Messi.
 
Tebas going up against City... again?

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La Liga also tried to stop Neymar from leaving. But they couldn't since PSG paid the clause. I guess we'll see what happens here.

But it is really unusual. There is no way the Premier League would get involved like this.
 
Marvin said:
They want to drown the player in red tape but could anything be more damaging to barcelona than madrid and Bartoemeu in conflict with Messi?

barcelona will end up negotiating a transfer because Messi is barcelona. 20 years of his life and it means nothing? On paper maybe, but in practise messi will win.
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It is telling that no one has disputed the fact that Messi has a clause in his contract allowing him to leave at the end of each season.

The line of reasoning seems to be that the clause expired on a certain date, that didn’t take into account a pandemic extending the season.

Regardless, of the legality of this, it seems wrong to use a technicality to prevent Messi from utilising a clause he was promised. That does appear to be a shabby way to treat a club legend.

IMO, this is all about the Barca board saving face, especially after the surrender of La Liga to Madrid and the humiliation against Bayern.

They cannot be seen to allow their prize asset to leave for nothing, but at the same time, the longer they keep their prize asset, the more they alienate him and possibly the fans.

I think they’ll end up accepting a bid of £50 million + Garcia and Angelino. Both players will be valued at about £35 million each to allow Barca to claim they recouped £100+ million for him.

Unless Messi backs down, I don’t see any way Barca can keep him and if they turned down a decent bid for him, that would give Messi even more support.
 
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