Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

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Should I turn Sky Sports off? This one not happening tonight?....
23:01 mate.

Vicky Gomersall is already wearing black and Jim White has got a black tie in his pocket just in case he has to announce the death of football.
 
I just have a feeling that this has been all done and dusted bar his signature. Messi and Aguero will have similar length contracts. Sure I read somewhere it was an ambition for them to play together.
 
Think the PSG ties are all BS?

Same as United links to Pep before he joined City.

Messi will only play for 1 other European club, and that'll be City.

The biggest risk to anyone who has dreams of him wearing City blue is him deciding to go straight to the USA this summer. But if he doesn't do that, he'll be at City next season IMO.

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Also, Koeman saying that he's not confident that Messi will be at Barca next season tells it's own story. It suggests Messi promised him 1 more yea that meeting at his house, but that at the end of it he would be leaving on a free.
 
When you come at the king, you better not miss.

I believe our board's aim to be still true and good.

The publishing of Messi's financial package clearly had multifaceted objectives.

To bracket Messi and also justify to the Barcelona supporters why he must be allowed to leave, whilst also deligitimising his next destination, posing questions of that club's funding ability to justify it.

More so City than PSG, due to recent relations.

New York can't do this without City, City can't do it without New York, certainly if he intends to play at the top level for another couple of years.

Paris has its obvious attractions from a lifestyle perspective, as does the fact he can get a direct flight from CDG to Buenos Aires, something Sergio already has to avail himself of, each time he wants to go home.

All the same, City need to emerge from the post-Covid era with the best possible chance to ramp up revenues, while also remaining competitive for Pep during his own three years left at the club.

Perhaps Messi is a Hail Mary for many different reasons inside City, certainly if it also means Pep winning the Champions League during his remaining tenure here?

I'd say all roads still lead to Messi unless he decides otherwise.

We could only afford him last summer if he walked away for free and he wasn't talking to Paris then, so why should things be any different.

Our unique selling point wasn't and isn't purely about money, he can get that and more from other places.

It's about environment, enjoying it, perhaps with people he trusts and have always respected his own wishes.
 
When you come at the king, you better not miss.

I believe our board's aim to be still true and good.

The publishing of Messi's financial package clearly had multifaceted objectives.

To bracket Messi and also justify to the Barcelona supporters why he must be allowed to leave, whilst also deligitimising his next destination, posing questions of that club's funding ability to justify it.

More so City than PSG, due to recent relations.

New York can't do this without City, City can't do it without New York, certainly if he intends to play at the top level for another couple of years.

Paris has its obvious attractions from a lifestyle perspective, as does the fact he can get a direct flight from CDG to Buenos Aires, something Sergio already has to avail himself of, each time he wants to go home.

All the same, City need to emerge from the post-Covid era with the best possible chance to ramp up revenues, while also remaining competitive for Pep during his own three years left at the club.

Perhaps Messi is a Hail Mary for many different reasons inside City, certainly if it also means Pep winning the Champions League during his remaining tenure here?

I'd say all roads still lead to Messi unless he decides otherwise.

We could only afford him last summer if he walked away for free and he wasn't talking to Paris then, so why should things be any different.

Our unique selling point wasn't and isn't purely about money, he can get that and more from other places.

It's about environment, enjoying it, perhaps with people he trusts and have always respected his own wishes.
At the end of the day, IF Messi wants to accept a new exciting challenge in a new league and country, money should not be a factor, especially if he is so unhappy, how much money does one guy need?

If he genuinely wants to join us and them move on to NYCFC, money should not come into the equation, and if it does I hope the club walk away quickly.
 
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