What about Chelsea???
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I donât think theyâd be prepared to pay him ÂŁ100 million a year. But weâll see, itâs going to get very interesting now.
Ramos and Messi in one team? And Gini will be expected to do the dirty workâŠ
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Barcelona lost their best player and biggest earner, for free. While they have to keep paying Coutinho and Dembélé??? 
Serious question, will they be able to qualify for CL next season???
That rather depends first on whether theyâre allowed to be in it at all.
If not for a mess of a club they otherwise are in, they would have had a good chance to rebuild and lot of players would have contributed more now that Messi is gone. But they seemed to be way too much fcked to guarantee anything.
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Messi carried them for large part of last season. AgĂŒero and DembĂ©lĂ© are always injury risks. Coutinho, Depay, and Griezmann can be expected to contribute substantially. But will that be enough? Yeah, top four in La Liga isnât that hard considering the gap between the top clubs and the rest.
Its a shame it has to end this way for Messi and Barca, but honestly I think this is best way out for Barca, if not for Messi. Short of some accounting magic, the damage theyâd have had to do to themselves to get Messi on board and come in under the salary cap would have been brutal. Not bringing Messi back on board means theyâll have a much easier time registering the players they want to, and with their existing players and kids they will still be able to put out an attack more than good enough to win their league, even with Phil and Dembele on the bench all season.
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If Barca want Messi to remain at the clubâŠ
Make him manager and bin âFat Headâ :0)
Now thatâs interesting, player manager? $100m as manager, $1 as player, then get in an assistant manager who is actually the real manager. Sneaky fuckers.
PS Didnât Gini want to play with him?
I reckon he re-signs miraculously after La Liga fold on their rules in the coming days.
Canât see Messi doing it In the PL (unless City fuck Kane over/off). Heâll end up at PSG or over in the MLS or South America, if he doesnât end up at Barca.
Beckham should get him for Inter Miami, Iâm sure Phil Neville can work wonders with him then.
I am amazed at the âBarca will be better off without Messiâ view point.
The bloke has more or less carried them for the last 5 years.
Theyâre now left with a bunch of players they paid big money for, who have not performed and a bloke who used to manage Everton
By the way they still probably have to bin off 3-5 players on the cheap or on free before the season starts.
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by the way
Weâll done La Liga for having the bollocks to actually follow through on FFP.
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From the bbc:
â(âŠ) the bottom line was not meeting the FFP regulations.â
Isnât it astounding how some clubs have to follow ffp regulations, while some others spend like drunken sailors, and arenât taken to task for it? Cheaty and PSG have now effectively taken over UEFA, the CAS ruling which let Cheaty out of jail over a technicality was the last nail in the coffin it seems.
As for Messi, he finds himself with egg all over his face. He delayed signing a new contract, maybe flirting with the idea of tapping into oil-cheikh money, and finds himself with nothing for the time being. Of course, he could still sign a new, more sustainable contract with Barca (most likely scenario imo).
He could also move clubs, but who in his right mind would be ready to pay around 100 millions a year to a 34 year-old? Oh yeah, I forgot: there are oil-sheikh owned clubs who neednât bother about ffp⊠
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Real & Barca are waiting for the Spanish Government to bail them outâŠ
Like the UK did for the banks
They have to completely rebuild from top to bottom this can be done whether they do it will be anyoneâs guess but personally from what Iâve seen elsewhere building teams seems more in vogue than sticking it around one player.
Yes itâs a long rebuild but this starts that process, at this point shifting him on and rebuilding to me looks like the better option.
At 34, Messi is past his best and itâll probably do the current Barca squad some good to step out of his shadow. Was discussed a few weeks ago on here, that Messi from a marketing perspective is massive for Barca, hence they were trying everything to keep him on, including giving him a 6 year deal, of which heâd only play 3.
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I donât know. Look at us. We won champions league after selling Owen and again after selling Coutinho. Sometimes getting rid of focul point of team makes everyone else step up, instead of just feeding one guy and watching, and there is plenty of talent in the squad.
Might be they crumble though, I donât know 
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