Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[BoundedCascade]

We are preparing an AV firm for Messi announcement apparently

 

[ws01]

All those people slagging off Pep after the CL exit. If it wasn’t for Pep, this thread wouldn’t exist. Just think about that for a minute!!!

Would rather the CL mate, and I'd hope any true supporter of ours would too.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Would rather the CL mate, and I'd hope any true supporter of ours would too.

The league will always be my primary target.

You can’t win the league being lucky.

You can in the CL. It’s prestigious, but ultimately a lottery.

 

[PrezIke]

Bollox to the extreme. Sorry.

The argument Barcelona's "season ended" on August 23, 2020 (the day they were eliminated) goes against everything we know about how football seasons in Europe go every year.

The Champions League quarter finals are always mid-April when European leagues are still taking place. Leagues end in mid-May (May 18 was the last date for games in la Liga in 2019).

May 30, the "deadline" for Messi to leave on a free is about 1 month before the end of contracts for players, June 30 or about 2 weeks after the La Liga season is over.

Based on this, he should get AT LEAST a 2 week window to make a decision if he wants to stay.

When Messi came out to say he wants to leave it was less than 2 weeks since Barca was eliminated.

What is becoming abundantly clear is the club don't care about him or even the fans, sounding as desperate as ever throwing their greatest player ever under the rug. Encouraging loyal fans through a campaign of carnage to turn them into agents of his destruction even though the most honest ones know this approach is a disaster, clinging to straws and maybe better to just move on.

'Mas Que Un Club?' Their fans deserve better. It's sad really

 

[california blue]

Bollox to the extreme. Sorry.

The argument Barcelona's "season ended" on August 23, 2020 (the day they were eliminated) goes against everything we know about how football seasons in Europe go every year.

The Champions League quarter finals are always mid-April when European leagues are still taking place. Leagues end in mid-May (May 18 was the last date for games in la Liga in 2019).

May 30, the "deadline" for Messi to leave on a free is about 1 month before the end of contracts for players, June 30 or about 2 weeks after the La Liga season is over.

Based on this, he should get AT LEAST a 2 week window to make a decision if he wants to stay.

When Messi came out to say he wants to leave it was less than 2 weeks since Barca was eliminated.

What is becoming abundantly clear is the club don't care about him or even the fans, sounding as desperate as ever throwing their greatest player ever under the rug. Encouraging loyal fans through a campaign of carnage to turn them into agents of his destruction even though the most honest ones know this approach is a disaster, clinging to straws and maybe better to just move on.

'Mas Que Un Club?' Their fans deserve better. It's sad really

Who gives a fuck about barca fans?

 

[PrezIke]

Who gives a fuck about barca fans?

Their fans matter in all this. We cannot pretend otherwise.

These portrayals influence their fans and the point is not necessarily about "their fans" it's about Messi's contract dispute.

The logic here is massively faulty and I've read lawyers say "a date is a date" as a justification for things.

These are all obstacles to any move.

 

[ws01]

Fuck Barca and fuck their fans.

 

[ws01]

The league will always be my primary target.

You can’t win the league being lucky.

You can in the CL. It’s prestigious, but ultimately a lottery.

We've won the league, and we've won it well. Whether we like it or not, the next step is the CL. That has to be our ambition.

How long do people use this 'luck' thing as an excuse? Four seasons back to back under our current manager? The best don't - it's a cop out and the way losers talk. We should want City to be the best, and the best don't keep going on about getting lucky, they make their own.

If Lionel Messi comes here, the greatest player of all-time, he doesn't just settle for the League. He comes to win the CL.

 

[bumbleblue]

Gobshites crawling out from every corner for hits and clicks..

 

[barcelondoner]

Anyone that doesn't deem the European Cup/Champions League the "holy grail" when it comes to trophies are in denial.

You're literally extolled as the Champions of Europe when you win it. Would be nice to have that alongside the perennial "Champions of England" on the mantelpiece.