Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[JoshH7611]

You don't go about keeping your wife by the footballing equivalent of telling her she can't have a divorce and to go and put the fucking tea on.

Exactly. He's handled it so badly. He's handled it like a man who has zero control over what he is doing. Maybe that's why he's already lost Neymar and Barcelona are turning into a comedy club.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Is he really being a dick about it? Lionel Messi isn't Leroy Sane. He's the biggest Footballer around. I can't criticise the man for not wanting his biggest asset on and off the pitch to leave. He's doing what every owner would do if they had Messi.

It is coming across as desperate, but if you loved a woman and she said she wants to break off the marriage because of the way you've been with her for the last 3 years, you'd fight to keep her to make it right. That's all that Bartameu is doing, and he's well within his right to do so.

The best we can hope for is Messi not making a decision and dragging this out even longer- maybe another 2-3 weeks without this going to the courts. If he does that Bartameu may have to accept that Messi will not change his mind and negotiate a fee.

No, that isn't the best we can hope for. He could put the papers into FIFA tomorrow, walk out & tell City he'll pay the compensation himself if there is any & sign for the same wages as Gundogan, , for example, which would be closer to the 'best we could hope for'.

And yes, unless Messi is considering changing his mind, Barca are being dicks, it's pathetic.

 

[chedinho]

Batomeu doesn't like the idea of being the one that loses Messi. He' should like the idea of losing him and 100 mill euros as well as another 50 million in wages even less.

I think that if Messi was off to China, the gulf or the states, then he would be gone by now.
But selling to City is hard to take.

we are doing to Barca what we did to Arsenal.
Once we’ve swapped positions, like we have with Arsenal, we will never let them have it back.

i expect Barca will do the same. Stamp their feet and call us names. Start the occasional petition and the like.
Meanwhile we will be kicking back watching Messi and wondering why Barca are saying nasty things about us.
After all the cheeky bastards tapped up Garcia.
this is only my opinion and my go to story if I have the displeasure of talking to cartel clubs fans.

 

[SWP's back]

The best we can hope for is Messi not making a decision and dragging this out even longer- maybe another 2-3 weeks without this going to the courts.

Bollocks

 

[blue61]

Do you,think we keep in regular touch with Messi while all this is going on

Best you ask Pep!

 

[spacecadet]

Does that mean that there's a 107.5% chance that he'll be playing either us or Barca?

No, that will be the bookmaker's over round smart arse

 

[flook]

Give me a break I’d only had one coffee and was just making a sausage barm.

muffin

 

[Keeper!]

Do you,think we keep in regular touch with Messi while all this is going on

 

[Tricky_Trev]

It's all politics my friend. Everything has always been done. It's all a charade. Everything behind the scenes has been done and that I'm sure of. This is the same with all the transfers. The reporting only comes from a political or propaganda standpoint. This is why what we hear in the world through the news isn't actually what it truly is. Let's wake up to this fact.

The transfer of the greatest player of all time doesn’t get completed in the shadows with absolutely nobody knowing about it and no leaks. It’s not already done, no chance. Not with Barca.

 

[andyhinch]

muffin

Rag