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Lionel Messi to Chelsea?

JM7 said:
He’s not going anywhere. Barca will drag this into the courts to make Messi look bad. By that time, he’ll be 34
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I'd like to see who's tough enough to take Messi to court. He's like a God to the supporters there and it wouldn't go very well at all.

Taking him to court would be the end of his Barcelona-career anyways so it's a lose-lose situation for everyone.

I think he'll be a City-player relatively soon.

 
dansubrosa said:
Another foreign player with a fancy name that people have only watched for 1 or 2 games because we are linked with him. I’ll stick with Barkley thanks.
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It took him how many games to score against us. Whats the big deal

 
bisright1 said:
Incorrect. 

He can leave on a free now. He had a clause in his contract and it expires at the end of each season. The season has just ended which is why he put the paperwork in now. 

His clause extended because the season extended. June isn't the date. This is reported on bbc sport 

There is 0 fee.

However I do think he will stay. 
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Not sure which one of us you are saying is incorrect.

But his clause expired on June 10. 

Im sure messi's side will try and fight it given the fact the season finished later, and the window was actually pushed back, but as it stands, Barcelona dont think he can move for free. 

With the whole package costing a fortune, i think they should probably just let him go, all things considered, it would be a shame to end things with a legal battle.

 
TomCFC85 said:
Will never happen, probs won't even leave Barca but Roman is playing FIFA Career Mode in real life, so who knows?
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Once an owner buys more than 2 or 3 players, he is playing FIFA career mode. What do you think Chelsea's ambition is? 10th position in the league? Now, the team for me got depleted so GREATLY. I don't know why, but it felt like the team became mediocre. I mean compared to eras we've seen recently with Chelsea.

We had eras like that of the three Amigos, hazard-mata-oscar, fabregas Matic, Costa, willian, we had the Essien, Makalele, Lampard, Carvalho, Robben...... etc era. And on and on like that.

But at this period with Zouma, Christensen, Alonso, Giroud etc.... It just felt like they were a downgrade to the previous eras.

So for me it is nothing special that we are buying a little more decent players. It is just so that we can be a proper team up there, who can seriously put up a fight to win the premier league or the champions league. And that is nothing special because if other teams like Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal want to win the Premier league or the champions, there is nothing wrong if Chelsea also want to win these titles.

At the moment I think our attack is good but only Kante can't cover the defense. Before people start blaming the defense and the goalkeeper. In France I think it is Kante and Matuidi. So if we don't protect the defense from the midfield, eventually our defense will still be poor. We need to buy another defensive midfielder to play with Kante in the midfield. We saw that with Matic and Kante, we saw that with Essien and Makalele. Common Sense please.

 
I can't see him leaving, he's in a palatial comfort zone, highest paid footballer and adored by millions. don't think he would risk all that at his age.

 
In all likelyhood they'll probably bend over backwards in order to appease Messi and convince him to stay but Barca are in real trouble at the moment. They have a lot of aging players long past their sell by date and it's an open secret that they want to get rid of them but who in the current financial climate would want to take on ridiculous wages on top of fees for players that are in the twilight of their careers? 

While I still think him staying is the more likely outcome there could be more to this than just a power move by a disappointed superstar. Messi is 33 and he realizes he's not winning anything at Barca in the next couple of years because the rebuilding will take time, the kind of time he as a player doesn't have. This is a case of the club that needs the player much more than the player needs the club.

In any case, even if Messi's serious about leaving, he'll only want to join the club where he can realistically win trophies now, a settled powerful side, not a project in the making. Plus, the money issue, Which only leaves two candidates, City and PSG.

 
Even if he is the best player in the world and even if he does leave Barca in the current market is there really going to be many clubs who could bankroll a deal for him? 

At 33 he's still likely to sign a 4 year contract if he moved and would instantly become the best paid player at whichever club he goes to. He's rumoured to earn 500,000k per week on his current Barca deal, so let's so he signed on similar terms that over £100m on wages alone before you start adding in sign on fees, loyalty bonuses, agent fees etc. 

Don't get me wrong, any team in the world wants Messi to play for them but when it comes to actually financing a deal most sides wouldn't be able to commit to that financial package. 

 
There is media noise around City, PSG and Utd and even us.

The dark horse possibility, I could see him at Juve under Pirlo. 

 
ForeverCarefree said:
Even if he is the best player in the world and even if he does leave Barca in the current market is there really going to be many clubs who could bankroll a deal for him? 

At 33 he's still likely to sign a 4 year contract if he moved and would instantly become the best paid player at whichever club he goes to. He's rumoured to earn 500,000k per week on his current Barca deal, so let's so he signed on similar terms that over £100m on wages alone before you start adding in sign on fees, loyalty bonuses, agent fees etc. 

Don't get me wrong, any team in the world wants Messi to play for them but when it comes to actually financing a deal most sides wouldn't be able to commit to that financial package. 
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The City sheik would love an opportunity to rub it in UEFA's faces after the recent verdict. They've already spent over 60m on Ferran Torres and Ake, but signing Messi would be like wiping their asses with FFP guidelines in front of Infantino while humming the Champions League anthem.

 
We are never going to sign him, but just for fun I'd love to see him in the EPL, just to prove the can't play on a wet Wednesday night at Burnley theory.

 
I see various tabloids are reporting that he already phoned uncle Pep and is likely to join City. I assume this is based entirely on their history at Barcelona rather than anything factual.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
We are never going to sign him, but just for fun I'd love to see him in the EPL, just to prove the can't play on a wet Wednesday night at Burnley theory.
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I certainly hope not. I would rather forego the flashes of brilliance around the box in order to have a less skillful but a whole footballer. I prefer to watch committed footballers who can show moments of sublime skill and teamwork on the ball, but also work for their teammates off the ball. It would drive me to distraction watching him lose possession, as he undoubtedly would on occasion  from the crowding out most teams would employ, to then just stand there hands on hips making no attempt to tackle or retrieve possession, whilst his teammates are then under the cosh. We are too young and too incomplete to be able to carry luxury players that refuse to work for the team.

 
Typical Messi BS...trying to maintain his dominance in Barca against Koleman's new radical agenda...there is not a snowball's chance in hell he's moving on...just wait and see...

 
Jokes aside he’ll either stay or it’ll be Man City in my opinion. If nothing else for Man City the shirt sales will be immense. 

 
WhiteWall said:
I certainly hope not. I would rather forego the flashes of brilliance around the box in order to have a less skillful but a whole footballer. I prefer to watch committed footballers who can show moments of sublime skill and teamwork on the ball, but also work for their teammates off the ball. It would drive me to distraction watching him lose possession, as he undoubtedly would on occasion  from the crowding out most teams would employ, to then just stand there hands on hips making no attempt to tackle or retrieve possession, whilst his teammates are then under the cosh. We are too young and too incomplete to be able to carry luxury players that refuse to work for the team.
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Honestly, Messi would take this team onto a whole new level. Even if they put 3 players on Messi they still won’t be able to stop him, and that also frees up space for the likes of Havertz, Werner, Pulisic etc. Our team would be absolutely lethal.

 
I just have visions of him turning up to his next club, starting well before fizzling out and doing an Ozil with his contract. Once that runs out, straight to Newells and finally back to barca in a corporate capacity.

 
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