“I would never go to court against Barca as it is a club I love.”
.:...also, it would cost a shit ton of my money too
.:...also, it would cost a shit ton of my money too
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Haha, yes. Giggs went through court proceedings so he didn't have to publicly own up to fecking his brothers wife.
Indeed
Shut up man. You wouldn’t respect him no matter what. We don’t have to make everything about Messi vs Ronaldo.
No no, is Ryan Giggs a coward for staying his whole career at Man Utd?
Ryan Giggs was never best player in the world.
God this guy cant get promoted. Wrote all that, and it's crap
Absolutely, and cheers for the civil convo
Best of luck to you guys this coming season
A civil conversation on the Caf! Pleasure.
Is that relevant to the discussion? The point being made was that he was a coward for staying at one club and not trying somewhere else.
The fact that you cannot see the difference makes me wonder if we're having the same discussion.
Expected end really. Surely no one is surprised.
Well handled interview that, he needed to make a statement and staying one more year is definitely the right decision to avoid any legal disputes between him and the club.
Now we'll get a full season without knowing if he'll stay or not at the end of it though. They have good young players coming up and by the time the season ends they'll have a new board and most likely a new coach so everything will be different and he could easily change his mind.
Now we'll get a full season without knowing if he'll stay or not at the end of it though. They have good young players coming up and by the time the season ends they'll have a new board and most likely a new coach so everything will be different and he could easily change his mind.
Could be a slightly awkward season for him if he doesn't immediately hit top form!
Has gone about this whole thing very messily indeed.
At least City can bore off though
Has gone about this whole thing very messily indeed.
At least City can bore off though
You might be right about that but it felt under him the club took a direction away from being this club who prides itself in producing the best players in the country and having a distinct playing style to Real Madrid mk II.
This is a 33-year-old man-child that looks to his dad to tell him what to do and the outcome is to pretend to want to leave a job that pays him half a million quid a week.
Prick.
Prick.
And the only reason people are calling him a coward is because he is a contender for GOAT. If the team was built around Ryan Giggs for over a decade and he was on that level, I'm sure we would have a similar discussion. That's why i'm confused why ability is irrelevant
You go about with such certainty as if you are inside his head. No one knows what Messi is thinking so to portray such conviction in your statements is borderline egotistical.
He believed the gentleman's agreement to let him decide his future at the end of the season, something that was apparently reinforced multiple times over the year. I don't hear the president responding to Messi's criticism and refuting his claims. In the contract itself, they may have added June 10th as the deadline as they had to put in a date. Nobody knew that covid would hit and extend the season beyond that date. Messi had the right to test waters by checking if the club still uphold their promise of letting him choose. Seems like they don't.
Sure. Some moronic stuff in this thread alrightI’m sure there is a bit of both in there l, if he was committed to leaving he would have. Because of Covid I believe fifa would honor the contract they signed. Would be a long process but they would.
The “heartbreaking” stuff to me is bollocks. The whole situation that is going on with him and the board allegedly is already heartbreaking enough so a few court dates would not change that.
We can agree to disagree but like I said he is Lionel Fecking Messi, If he was fully committed to leaving he absolutely would of and could have.
I have no doubt he thought about it and considered it but I think he got cold feet. We know how Messi Personality is so it is not out of the real of possibility.
He has just publicly wiped his dick on the presidents face for not letting him leave La Liga and seek new challenges
Your argument makes no sense. So if you’re a man you can’t get advice from your parents? And that half a million he will earn here or at City so that ain’t going to change.
He's best ignored or laughed at. There's no reasoning with such posters.
not to be anti messi but he does seem to be fairly money driven even relative to other footballers. he tried to leave for free and the loop hole isn't there, probably needs to get over it now like every other footballer in the world whose tried to leave a club for cheap but the club doesn't let it happen
Just saw this, and I really feel for him. He did the right thing, and is getting royally back stabbed by the board at Barca. If anything, Messi should have been given a legend's send off (like Schweinsteiger got from Bayern), but the board made him the villain who wants to break his contract and leave as a rebel.
It does seem suspicious and maybe it was just a power move but it would had been disruptive for the club had he handled the burofax in time when they were still competing, so I find Messi's version believable as well.
Anyway his statements and responses is what I was expecting for him although to make everything definitive a cement his posture and version I think he needed to state this is his last season and end up with the ambiguity or at least clarify his position regarding if his continuity is definitive. This way it seems like he still playing it safe which might lead to believe he was never serious about leaving.
So overall this just seems like a win for Real Madrid, and perhaps Manchester United fans if they were that afraid of him playing for City. By the way things have been dealt this puts a lot of pressure on Koeman, the board, the players and Messi himself so things are likely to get ugly if they have a poor season.
He's 33. He needs to grow up.
Agreed, he should give Josh King a ring
More transfer requests and retirements from the national team than I don’t know what.
Giggs wasn't flashing his legs at other clubs like Messi does every couple of seasons.
Has Messi just done a Gerrard?
Though the motivations for doing the U-turn were slightly different: one didn't want to take his beloved club to court, the other changed his mind after his fans started burning his shirts and issuing threats.
Though the motivations for doing the U-turn were slightly different: one didn't want to take his beloved club to court, the other changed his mind after his fans started burning his shirts and issuing threats.
It’s not exactly a usual situation, that we’ve seen before. He’s the best player in the world, and gets paid as such. I don’t see this move as money driven, otherwise he would have exorcised their clause in June, and be at City right now having banked the biggest signing on fee in the history of the game, perhaps any team sport.
... but not enough to deter Messi. It will be less than 1% of his net worth....
Hrs already had the hormone treatment, not much else left for a growth spurt.
Similar, although I think the motivation was greater for Gerrard as he wanted to win the league.
its not a u turn, the club wont allow the sale. seems he has the support of the fans anyway if he left
We will see
So Messi knew Bartemou was a snake. But then believed him anyways. That too for a full season. And he never told his legal advisors about his intention to leave for free, again for an entire season. So they never looked up the contract and advise him correctly.
Seems lot of naivety by someone who has been in this business for so long.
He never wanted to leave for free ffs. He wanted to terminate his contract and negotiate a transfer fee with city. But Barca refused to negotiate
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