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.
LMAO
You don't seriously think that Messi is the one who put Barcelona in financial hardship, do you?
Because it was their presidents' fault.
They signed Dembele, Countinho, Greizmann and some other folks for 100m+ euros each. They all flopped and were sold for enormous losses.
Even now they are paying extravagant fees for transfers with their 'levers' when they should be focuses on erasing their debt. They are even had troubles
keeping them (see for example Dani Olmo).
Barcelona have a bad habit on spending too much money on crappy transfers like these. They are like Manchester United in this regard but at least they know when to stop so they don't get into crippling debt.
Are you seriously incapable of counting? The total cost of those you listed is less than the cost of Messi alone. Have you ever heard of the cost/benefit ratio?
As was already written in the thread above after Xavi, Iniesta and other golden players left, Messi never led Barcelona to victory in the Champions League. Maybe it was worth looking for new Xavi/Iniesta (as Real did) than waste money on Messi?