You don't need to say this. It likely you underestimate Barcelona without Messi. Are you a Messi fan or a Barca fan?
There will be another player to be the successor of number 10 if Messi leaves Barcelona. And I am sure he will be as good as Messi in the future if Barcelona has more chances.
I am a fan of Real Madrid, but I have a sober view of the performance of both Real Madrid and its opponents.A player like Messi will not be in Barcelona for a long time, but in the whole world. And Barcelona is well aware of this and therefore wants to keep Messi as long as possible in the team. Both as a player and as a brand, Messi means a lot to Barcelona.
We all agree that Messi is a great football player. And in any case, he's a player with a huge contribution to the team. But no one can win a match alone. Therefore, in Barcelona's success, I think we should talk about what they did right.
I think being able to be a team is the key word here. Barcelona plays like a single body on the field.
It is obvious that Barcelona is doing great as well. I think it's going to matter that they are doing good as well. I mean think about it this way they are not just good relations and all that but they have a chance to win the league as well and that's very important. Because if they were playing bad and losing games Messi could have left even with a proper manager relations and that's why I think it's quite important that they are winning.
Let's assume for a second that Barcelona president is praising Messi on TV every single day and they are having a great relationship, but Barcelona is 5th in the league? That would be horrible for them and they would definitely end up not being happy and lose Messi in the end. This means they have to both be great at winning but also be great at relationship, both of them needs to be together to keep Messi at the team.