Quote from: Cryptoprincess101 on Today at 04:24:01 PM

Quote from: KTChampions on January 02, 2025, 03:22:09 PM

Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.

Lionel Messi should not be blamed in any way for the financial chaos that has befalling Barcelona because despite that the club was paying him handsomely, he also made a lot of money for the club even more than the club spent on him and it was even confirmed by the club's president after Lionel Messi's exit in 2021. And besides, Lionel Messi's impact to Barcelona cannot be commensurate with the amount the club was paying him since he joined the senior team. The club's president, Joan Laporta said in 2021 that Messi generated more than 1.2 billion Euros for Barcelona since 2018 which was more than x2 of what the club was paying him then. Barcelona should just accept that the financial crisis that has befalling them is as a result of poor financial management after the COVID and not put it on Lionel Messi. Besides, Lionel Messi worth any amount the club paid him or is still paying him because he brought the team to light during his reign in Barcelona.

I agree with that because Lionel Messi only asked for what is rightfully his, and that is in accordance with what he has given to the club. What destroyed Barcelona was not Lionel Messi, but Barcelona itself who failed to manage its finances properly. They took a lot of advantage from their fans, even considering fans as nothing more than cash cows, openly giving donations, selling tattoos, and breaking seats for fans. But who knows where the money they earned went? The club has been experiencing financial problems for quite a long time, and now they are even being strangled by the Dani Olemo case which has made the team's financial condition even worse. and maybe only Joan Laporta knows for sure about this..!!