Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot said:
Jwhen a team like Barca fucks a player off like him you know they're either shite or bad news and I reckon this **** is both!
You are not aware of what happened at Barca are you?
Well, in short Ibra was very successful, scoring a lot of goals, five in his first five games to begin with and scoring the decider in his first El Classico, which gave him a lot of media attention and praise.
Messi was pushed back to more wide and supporting role,
something he did not accept. He told Pep and the board how he felt and voilà, he was back in his preferred central role and Ibra was suddenly benched and later sold to Milan for a ridiculously low price compared to what they paid for him (he then had a buy-out clause at a staggering €250mil)
Messi is/was bigger than Pep and bigger than the club. Messi got what he wanted and Ibra would not take any crap from "the philosopher" as he called Guardiola, whom by the way only talked to Ibra two times during six months.
Ibra was not kicked out from Barcelona due to a lack of quality. But because he had too much of it.