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Lionel Messi to Chelsea?

Ah what a disappointment. I thought better of Messi than to go to a club with no sporting challenging or merit.

Money does talk then.

 
Valpo said:
I havn't been following European football for as long as you all have. . . but what is up with all these big clubs being in the red?  My understanding is Barca and Real Madrid are in the red and now you are telling me PSG is too. 
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PSG are not really in the red, they are owned by a country! 

Madrid and Barcelona are paying the price for paying astronomical wages to keep 2 of the greatest players, whilst also spending ridiculous amounts on signings to keep those players content. Now we have the situation with covid, and the redistribution of some of the tv revunue, and both are in a pretty tough situation, especially Barcelona. 

 
axman2526 said:
Ah what a disappointment. I thought better of Messi than to go to a club with no sporting challenging or merit.

Money does talk then.
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Disappointing, but realistically what were his options? Plus he has some close friends there aswell. I think PSG were the only team in for him tbh. 

 
Maybe now is the time for a cheeky 100m-150m EUR bid for Mbappé, so that PSG can offset the... ah well who cares

 
big blue said:
Disappointing, but realistically what were his options? Plus he has some close friends there aswell. I think PSG were the only team in for him tbh. 
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All depends on what is most important, the sporting challange or money.

If he really wanted to he could come in line with the top earners at any club, Bayern, Juve, United, City, Us, Liverpool etc none would turn him down and he could keep all or the majority of his image rights and still make bucket loads.

Instead he looks off to a 2 bob league and a club that is not a real club anymore, just funded by a never ending bottomless pit.

 
big blue said:
Disappointing, but realistically what were his options? Plus he has some close friends there aswell. I think PSG were the only team in for him tbh. 
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I think other clubs didn't bother because they couldn't afford him. It all depends on what your priorities are. Picking PSG is the safest choice. Huge paycheck and and an easy domestic competition. The only real challenge is winning the CL, but what if they keep failing? 

He could have had his pick of top clubs but he chose money over ambition. 

 
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Just yesterday he tweeted how Messi is signing a new contract for Barcelona done deal official spit in hand pinky finger

 
I am pleased Messi won't be joining Chelsea as great a player as he is. Great players don't by themselves make great teams, just look at Messi and Argentina. Messi, in my view, would completely disrupt Chelsea. Right now my vibe is the club has a great performance based culture. The team respect Tuchel. Tuchel respects management. The players are mostly comfortable with each other and the merit order is well established. Nothing seems particularly out of line.

Messi would change that completely. It would be tuchel, the rest of the team and messi. I can see how his style would fit but at the expense of Mount or Havertz. Messi is certainly not an out and out striker.

Completely the wrong choice at this point and I expect the club is well enough run to understand that. Even Pep understands that.

 
Gol15 said:
Just yesterday he tweeted how Messi is signing a new contract for Barcelona done deal official spit in hand pinky finger
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Would not be the first free transfer involving Barca and PSG he got badly wrong this window either.

 
How does Barcelona even recover from losing Messi? The players they have bought over years and their current financial position really has messed them up. They haven't been good with Messi, so I don't see how they compete with the best again any time soon without him. I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped off like AC Milan did. 

Real Madrid ain't in a great position either. Losing Ramos and Varane in the same window is crazy. Their most valuable players are Benzema and Modric, and both them are showing their age, they should have had replacements lined up a few seasons back. They desperately need Hazard to find his best again, but it's been a long time since that happened and I doubt he can ever reach his highest levels again.

When you look at the situation, you can see why the two Spanish teams want the Super League so badly. They are desperate, it's possibly their last chance to stop themselves losing their status as giants of Europe.

 
Barca should have sold Messi two seasons ago and used the money to rebuild. Same as us selling hazard or even real selling Ronaldo. Though real did a bad job with the money. One of the great things bout Ferguson was he knew how to sell his players and rebuild. 

 
ozboy said:
Barca should have sold Messi two seasons ago and used the money to rebuild. Same as us selling hazard or even real selling Ronaldo. Though real did a bad job with the money. One of the great things bout Ferguson was he knew how to sell his players and rebuild. 
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Ferguson didn't want to sell Ronaldo. 

We didn't want to sell Hazard

 
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ozboy said:
Elizabeth didn’t want to sign Mary’s execution warrant but she did. 
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Makes no sense 🙂

Fergie sold Ronaldo because Ronaldo wanted to move. We sold Hazard because he wanted to move. It wasn't some great foresight from the managers.

I don't think there's much doubt that Man U will have won many more trophies with Ronaldo around.

Basically these weren't genius moves by the managers or clubs, these were clubs respecting players' wishes to leave. Messi never really wanted to leave.

 
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