Lionel Messi does not deserve it
A year ago, with the burofax episode, Messi was convinced to leave the team that made him great and the team he made great too.
Leo is and will always be the best footballer that the azulgrana team has ever had. For many the best football player in history. With a record that is almost impossible to match.
It coincided with a magnificent generation of players and the results were excellent. But it also coincided with the worst generation of managers of the Barcelona club.
What would Josep Lluís Nuñez, who was in charge for twelve years, think? Or what would Joan Gaspart, who was there for three years, or Joan Laporta, who was there for seven, think of the work of Sandro Rosell or Josep Maria Bartomeu?
The horrendous management of a club in the best sporting period of its history has meant that its best player, Leo Messi, has had to leave not because he wants to, not for financial reasons, but because of the wastefulness that these presidents have perpetrated in recent years.
These two presidents, however, have been in jail and still have cases pending.
What a shame for the fans, what a shame for the players and what a shame for the whole of Spain to see how the whole world echoes an injustice and grief at the departure of one of the best players in history.
Last week we talked about the huge salaries received by the Barça players. A real madness not even close to that of historic clubs such as Bayern Munich, Liverpool or Real Madrid.
The club's directors signed contracts like Pjanic's for 6.5 million euros and paid 60 million. He has hardly played a single game. Like him, many others.
This mismanagement, to which many attribute hidden interests or suspicious commissions, has meant that instead of creating a good sporting project and a balanced and high quality squad around their great star, the situation has resulted in a vulgar team that year after year was eliminated from the Champions League as soon as the opposition had the slightest bit of quality. Only Leo and a few others gave the minimum level, the rest were nothing.
For this reason, Messi wanted to leave. Because of the unfulfilled promises, year after year, by these leaders who were incapable of serving the interests of the azulgrana team, but very capable of serving their own interests.
The Argentinean star refused to talk to the president and now we know why. He wanted to leave the club of his love, the city where his children were born and raised and now we know why.
But a ray of hope appeared in the form of Joan Laporta. The new president tried to solve a problem that a priori, although difficult, had a solution, but when he entered the club and commissioned the audit everything fell apart.
The worst possible forecasts were a toy compared to the reality. The club is absolutely bankrupt. Held hostage by contracts that could have been drawn up by some club-state, which we all have in mind, but not by a sports company owned by a few members.
Contracts that are impossible to terminate. Who convinces Griezmann to go to another team to earn ten million, in the best case scenario, and stop receiving the 35 million he has signed.
Not to mention Umtití with 12 million euros, Coutinho with 24, Braithwaite with 6 and many more.
Players for whom there has not even been the slightest interest from any team.
To this must be added the 1,300 million in debt, 700 to be paid in the short term.
It has not been possible, not even by reducing his salary by 50%, for Messi to continue in the team due to the terrible management of selfish and incapable leaders.
It seems incomprehensible that the biggest attraction, the biggest source of income, the best image of the club has to leave in this way. With tears in his eyes, against the opinion of all the fans, Culés and from all parts of Spain, against the opinion of his own family, against the opinion of the Spanish Football Federation and the Professional Football League and against the opinion of its current president.
Many will come out and criticise the fact that the Azulgranas' stars have historically left the Azulgranas, such as Maradona, Ronaldo, Suárez, etc.
But Messi is completely different. It may be another case of one more star leaving through the back door, but it is such a cruel situation for all those who love Barcelona, Messi, football and such a great impotence that, I hope I'm wrong, but it may be a turning point at FC Barcelona. The beginning of an accelerated decline.
Of a decline in the attendance of the Culé fan at the Camp Nou. Of a decline in supporters around the world. Joan Laporta has a tough and very thankless job ahead of him.
Thank you to the leaders of the last few years!
In the future, universities will study what should never be done to manage a club, a company and a social mass. The disastrous case of the azulgrana.
