2023-06-09 19:06:43
Not only will Joan Laporta never be able to get over being the president who told Leo Messi that he had to leave Barça, but now he will also be able to add to his resume having lost him a second time. In 2021, the no to CVC condemned them to not being able to maneuver and, two years later, the financial situation of the entity has not improved enough to give reliable guarantees to anyone. Leo Messi and Xavi Hernández had been imagining what it would be like to meet again for months, but mathematics does not respond to fantasies. The levers worked the miracle of carrying a sign illuminated by Lewandowski last summer, but, without make-up, the reality is that the club has not returned to generate the income it attracted before the pandemic and the move to Montjuïc gets worse This is key to understanding why Barça remains stuck outside the margins of the salary cap.
The only way to be able to believe in Messi’s return to Barça was to ignore the economic regulations of the League and let yourself be carried away by a pathological romanticism. But ignorance is bliss to a certain extent and it had all become a matter of faith akin to asking the impossible from a paper virgin. In fact, what was being asked of the ex-captain was to wait until August to see if the whistle blew with the departures they planned to make. And there are still those who are surprised that he is going to Miami! As if the precedent of two years ago didn’t count for anything: as if Messi hadn’t already been weeks out of contract waiting for a cursed renewal. The most disappointing thing about the second season of the series is that, despite knowing that the sad outcome was so predictable, all the parties involved dedicated themselves to feeding a utopian illusion. No one wanted to be the villain of the movie.
In this story of shared responsibilities, Messi can be blamed, above all, for having wanted to enter this cheating dance knowing full well the erratic drift of Barça: if he didn’t want dust, he didn’t need to go to the era. If he was not willing to rely on the mode of operation of the same ones who disappointed him two years ago, there was no need to start the game or play with a fan who already had to overcome the traumatic grief of saying goodbye prematurely. With Messi out of the equation, Barça insists on the famous “that we are not so bad“. Maybe the next time they try to make us swallow that it is possible to buy a mansion without having a penny in our pocket we will have learned our lesson. Before inflating a balloon, you must have air in your lungs.
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