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After a farce, he stayed.

"you are not really happy, your smile is just your protective color."

By Mayra ServellondhPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

Ten days ago, Lionel Messi's fax to Barcelona executives revealed that the news that the Argentine was about to leave the team was like a football earthquake, which caught people off guard. Ten days later, Messi's interview spread all over the streets, and the players finally had no choice but to stay. The controversy behind caused public opinion.

It seems appropriate to use such a lyric to describe Messi and Barcelona fans at this time.

From Lionel Messi's announcement of departure, to media speculation and transfer plans, from the confrontation between Barcelona executives and Lionel Messi to the inconclusive talks between the two sides, the final outcome became a helpless compromise, and throughout the process, the mouthpiece of the media was insinuated, and strange stories were woven every day, and even La Liga had to declare against the players.

Messi's departure from the team looked like a farce from beginning to end.

Does Macy want to go?

There is no doubt about this, and in fact, there are signs that the Argentine has expressed his dissatisfaction with the team more than once this season. At the end of La Liga, he said, "if you play like this, Barcelona will not go far in the Champions League." in the past few seasons, we will see a silent Messi.

The once happy smile disappeared and was replaced by a frown, but we didn't believe that Messi would leave Barcelona, so we forgot such details.

Does Messi really not love Barcelona?

The answer is obviously no.

He said nothing when he lost the Champions League to Juventus in 201617. He chose to continue to fight as the 18th season of 2017 became the backdrop of Rome's miracle. He will still bear it when he was injured again by the miracle of Anfield in 2018. When the 2-8 Bayern tragedy happened, the last straw that killed the camel was finally put down.

Messi is not afraid of failure, he has experienced countless times in the national team, what he cannot accept is the "lack of planning" at the top of the club.

Messi's complaint is not unreasonable, during Bartomeu's tenure, in addition to the team won the treble in 2014, the move is the real theme.

In 2017, Neymar was poached by Paris for 220 million euros, and then Barcelona successively introduced players such as Dembele, Coutinho and Gretzman at high prices, but the top-heavy situation of the team has not changed, and most of the heavy signings repeat the story of southern orange and northern trifoliate orange.

At the same time, the aging of the team and salary pressure are becoming more and more serious, and these problems finally broke out in the 20th season of 2019.

Such a scene, Messi saw in the eyes, the heart is more and more painful, 20 years of love for Barcelona will not easily disappear, but quantitative change will always produce qualitative change, just like a marriage, the reason for the end is not "no love", but "love to tired".

In terms of spiritual attribute, Messi did not show enough leadership temperament in adversity, but football can never be a game undertaken by one person. When recession becomes the necessity of stupid operation at the top, it is not easy to go against the current.

Some fans will always say that Lionel Messi's announcement of staying at Barcelona and his withdrawal from the Argentine national team after the 2016 Copa America are "the same". Such a misinterpretation is obviously unfair to Messi, in an interview with the Argentine. "I never want to go to court with Barcelona," he said firmly.

However, Messi wanted to leave the team immediately this summer, Barcelona did not let go of the 700 million euro termination payment, and the two sides failed to reach an agreement on whether the "departure clause" was in force.

("I will never go to court with Barcelona").

According to Messi, he told Barcelona executives that they wanted to leave the team a year ago, and the executives headed by Bartomeu always prevaricated on the grounds that "we will think about it at the end of the season" and "we have a team-building plan." but finally gave up the promise.

If all this is true, does Bartomeu look a lot like a verbal promise that the boss can't keep, or an unfulfilled pie that is eloquent?

Only pity Messi and become what people call an "honest man".

("I have been telling the chairman that I want to leave over the past year").

In this sad interview, Messi has no choice but to talk about his mental journey. He will still stay at Barcelona next season, but the contradiction with the top management has been irreconcilable.

Bartomeu will almost certainly step down with notoriety in the presidential election in March, leaving behind injured Lionel Messi and Barcelona fans.

The broken mirror has always been difficult to get back together, and the end result is likely to be that Messi continues to play unhappily at Barcelona for another year, then leaves as a free agent, Barcelona will not get any transfer fee and will send away the greatest player in team history in a negative way.

It is almost certain that the farce will lose both sides and end in a lose-lose situation.

Three years ago, Pique wrote "he stays" on social media, and soon after Neymar moved to Paris, the three words became famous in football; three years later, Messi did stay, but he was already discouraged.

The only foreseeable thing is that there will still be a bloodshed next summer, and perhaps the farce has been foreshadowed since the birth of the stalker of "he stays".

How should the story of Lionel Messi and Barcelona finally be written down?

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