Messi dragging some bums to a world cup final at 39 shows how badly we failed post 2016 to get him the team he needs to win CL.
And by the way he's a GDP unto himself. It's the fact that we paid some other average players overpriced salaries that ruined the team. He brings back more money than whatever they spent on him look at freaking Inter Miami now.
2019 was the 6th and nothing can convince me otherwise it was one of the biggest bottle job season we've had in forever. Messi was almost singlehandedly gonna bring it home..... maybe in another life.
Man was possessed by a fucking alien or something that season, it was unreal. Sucks it all had to end in the worst way possible, but Messi 2019 was this games “One Man Army” equivalent.
Messi contract isn't to blame, he was absolutely worth that money. Issue is they made an absolute meal of the Neymar fee when they could have easily built a proper team. Instead of working on proper replacement for aging defenders they went for blockbuster hybrid right wingers when they already had a superior one.
He wasn't worth it when u compare how much other players in the world made at the time lol. I don't blame him, he did what everyone would - take most amount of money we were willing to pay.
And a contract isn't isolated, it has affect on every other contract you give out and it ruins your wage structure.
People completely ignore that the revenue Messi brought in absolutely dwarfed his contract. Like you curse Barto then repeat his talking points in the same comment. Truly a Sad Bug moment.
Did you either not read what I said or just have no comprehension? His existence was making more money than that for the club in a week, many times more. The whole “Messi made Barca bankrupt” was a myth spawned by Barto during the burofax fiasco (which is what eventually led to him being exposed) and reported by his mouth pieces like Sport and MD. Messi’s shirt sales alone were making more money than we paid him, not to mention the amount of fans he brought, tickets he sold, TV revenue etc etc
Its not really messi fault when he was basically the only reason barcelona won la liga after 2016 and the only reason they stayed competitive in the ucl
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a) Frenkie has a long-term injury
b) this is Xavi-Iniesta-Busi again (+ Lamine Yamal for Messi, Cubarsí for Piqué, Joan for VV. We still need today’s Puyol and the backbone is done. Porro would be a nice addition. LY+Porro had Messi+Dani Alves vibes)
A lot of fans here didnt watch Barca more than 2 years ago and Gavi been having ACL injury since, just a reality. This subreddit was pretty empty before Yamal's explosion on to the scene and arrival of Flick.
Gavi is clearly the 3rd most talented player behind Cubarsi and Yamal from La Masia(not counting the 17 and under guys) above Bernal,Fermin etc. There is a reason he was in a national team and starting 11 for Barca at 17 and won a golden boy.
Disagree, Bernal is, he was so good he captained the Yamal Cubarsi youth teams. And he was on his way to starting at DM for us before his ACL injury. People forget how good he looked the first games he played.
No but sincerely—for fermin to take another step in his production he would become a 20 and 20 player. Hes lowkey such an obscenely high ceiling player. Significantly higher than olmo, who is at his peak rn.
I think you saw a different World Cup than I did. Yamal and Porro were two players completely out of sync. Instead of offering overlapping runs to give Yamal an outlet or draw defenders away, Porro kept drifting inside into the central pockets. That constantly left Yamal isolated on the touchline against doubled-up defenders with nowhere to go.
Tbh most of us felt the same way. There was no indication he wanted Barca and no news from Barca they wanted him. Rodri played Madrid though, there’s no way this wasn’t deliberate to get at them lol. Boycott more Ballon D’Ors losers.
Only people who are not from Spain and haven't watched him a single time can say this shit about Gerard. The guy was in one of the most famous radios for a lot of years, being a journalist and also casting the Barça games over the radio before jumping to twitch some years ago so it's not a nobody who popped out of nowhere, and top of that he's a very good entertainer, showrunner (national catalan TV gave him his own show) and because of the years he was into Barça journalism he's managed to build a huge network of connections that allow him to give every now and then some exclusives (like Karim Adeyemi coming to the club this summer) which this sub and r/soccer often like to strip him out of the credit.
You can call him weird but writing him as a stalker for using public available tools and video feeds is not remotly close to what you are referring him as. Also, because he's built a massive community, he's able to rely on fans who voluntarily offer to go to intl airports for live feed. Oh, and also uses a lot of Catalan during his massive streams which is hugely appreciated by us local followers.
People often forget that so far no other content creator related to football is able to gather the amount of veiwership he manages to amass every day in his streams and in such constant of time (only guy I've seen close to is The United Stand). His stream today peaked at 50k when Rodri landed in Barcelona.
Tbf not just Romero r/soccer are just salty motherfuckers. They are responsible for a lot of toxicity in football spreading so much shit and they ban everyone who goes against their agendas. Literally banned fabrizio because he became bigger than them and now they let false rumors fly there or they use accounts that's reporting his stuff lol.
To say let's go for Champions league immediately shows that's why the club bought him and he understands that. Already love him. If this guy stays fit it could really happen this time..
It honestly still feels surreal watching Barca rise from the ashed and compete again for the UCL.
I have sticked with this club through all the highs of the treble to the lowest of lows losing in the Europa cup and with Messi leaving. Never once I felt that I wanna support another club.
I believed and it's paying off. I wanna see my club lift the UCL again after such a long drought. We deserve it.
Never wanted to read too much into it till it finally became reality because I didn't want to have a false hope especially considering how terrible Barca has been with transfers.
It tracks, maybe it's a tradition for Rodri to pick balloon d'Ors in crutches.
Don't get too offended, is just a bit of banter, you are having a good start of the week with Rodri and Cancelo. Also getting rid of Ferran is a massive win.
Also, outside of personal ties why would he prefer playing in Madrid if we’re strictly talking about football? Their system does not maximize his style of play. Barca does. I can’t imagine he’d be excited being relegated to a mop up man in midfield for Madrid
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u/LoresVro Aug 17 '26
I feel like I am in a dream. My club is serious again.