2023-06-06 19:00:22
BarcelonaAlbert Llimós explains a few reasons why he thinks Lionel Messi should not return to Barça. And, of course, there is no shortage of them. He has always been a sensible person, Albert, one of those who knows how to use his head. It is one of the jobs that journalists have, to analyze, ask and expose the pros and cons. But as I read it and found him to be right, something stirred inside me, as if I had an eel in my belly. I can’t help it: I want Messi back.
I agree with Albert. Analyzing it coldly, I would choose to make the financial effort to strengthen a different position of the team. But the heart decides to explore its path, ignoring reason. The journalist Toni sees it as complicated and admits that it would be better to let it run, as the club’s pocket is and remembering the age of the Rosario player. But the football fan wants to see Messi wearing Blaugrana again, even if the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium is not the best stage for this second half.
Sport is like that. Reason does not always rule. The choir pays its entrance and also has its say. In fact, thinking with his head, surely all the actors would have closed the folder and there would be no Messi. But the desires are very strong. Messi wants to return to Barcelona, where he was happy, where he feels that his stage did not end. Laporta wants it too. I’m sure he’s been told it’s not a good idea to tackle this almost utopian operation on an economic scale, but the president wants Messi back. He wants to remove the thorn of not having been able to renew him recently, of having seen him cry, of feeling that he failed the player and many fans. And most fans want it too.
They want it because it made us happy, because we can’t help it, we want it. I can’t stop watching this series as if it were a love affair in which two lovers want to live together and won’t let them. They tell them that they need papers, that there is no money, that if the age is not correct. But they want it. And the fans, who cannot forget that tearful farewell and want to caress the best player of all time again. Nostalgia, in this case, is key. Yesterday, watching Xavi and Iniesta embrace in Japan, it was inevitable to think of those years when they played like angels next to Messi. It was inevitable to think of seeing Xavi and Messi together, working on a new project.
Now, nostalgia can be dangerous. We must force ourselves to think coldly in this case. I hope the club officials will. When I do, I end up arguing that I better not come back. It usually doesn’t last long though. The heart prevails. It’s a very strong desire: I want to see Messi back at Barça, I can’t help it. I think that within the club more than one must experience it the same, and it is both fascinating and dangerous.
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