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Aug 15, 2021 · 08-15-2021 • 11 min read. Just when it seemed as if it was only a matter of days or even hours before there would be a long-awaited announcement of free agent Lionel Messi rejoining Barcelona...
- Sandro Rosell Is Elected Barcelona President
- Pep and Tito Depart Within A Year of Each Other
- Josep Bartomeu Wins Re-Election in 2015
- The Remontada Backfires
- Post-Neymar Panic
- Inaction After Anfield
- Antoine Griezmann
- Covid-19
- Letting Messi’s Contract Expire
- Joan Laporta Refusing The CVC Deal
Messi’s downfall at Barcelona actually began before he had even peaked, when Sandro Rosell was elected president in 2010 to take over from Joan Laporta. Rosell was part of Laporta’s initial team before disagreements over appointments (he wanted Scolari instead of Rijkaard and Mourinho instead of Guardiola) led to him quitting. Rosell ran on a platf...
Rosell’s rule drove Guardiola to distraction. He was forced to sell Dmytro Chygrynskiy but was never supplied a replacement and only his coaching brilliance and Javier Mascherano’s versatility saved the 2010/11 season as the Argentine filled in at centre-back to help complete one of the club’s best seasons ever. Guardiola asked for Thiago Silva in ...
Bartomeu was one of Rosell’s vice presidents and so took over when he resigned in 2014. Andoni Zubizarretta pulled off a miracle of a transfer window to get the club Luis Suárez, Marc-André ter Stegen, Ivan Rakitic, Claudio Bravo and more. Still, the club was a mess (and only a mid-season meeting led by Xavi allowed new coach Luis Enrique and Messi...
With no sporting project to speak of, Barcelona were heavily reliant on the spine of Guardiola’s side and the magic of the M-S-N forward line. And sure enough, that carried them to a Treble then a domestic double (it might well have been a second Treble but for a missed penalty call against Atlético Madrid). But in the third season again, things be...
Of course, it didn’t have to be a disaster. Neymar’s demand for protagonist status was beginning to disrupt the M-S-N harmony. Maybe if they went out and bagged the next young, lightning-fast forward with the €222m they could get right back to winning ways. And hey look, Kylian Mbappé just scored 21 in 44 as Monaco won Ligue 1 and made the Champion...
The appointment of Ernesto Valverde, while shrewd for his first season, was a problem in his second. The Spaniard’s tactical blunders in the Champions League allowed Roma to come back from 4-1 down to 4-4 on aggregate and knock Barcelona out of the Champions League when they were well-placed to perhaps go all the way. And that was bad, but okay, yo...
Antoine Griezmann turned Barcelona down in the summer of 2018. It was a PR blow but tactically a blessing in disguise because Griezmann, a No.10, wasn’t either of the forward positions Barcelona needed (forward or winger). However, because Bartomeu had no sporting project and needed the PR boost of a big signing, he went back for Griezmann in summe...
The global pandemic shut football down, rightly so. This understandably led to a drop in revenue for most clubs, which was financially painful (unless you’re in the Premier League) but nothing fatal. Except Barcelona’s sky-high expenditure had, to this point, been balanced out by their outrageous revenues. Revenues which took a huge hit from the mo...
Things didn’t improve at first under new coach Ronald Koeman, and it looked like Messi would leave when his contract expired at the end of the season. But then Bartomeu was forced to resign over corruption issues, and elections were called. Joan Laporta returned in full force and won and, with that, the whole mood around Barcelona lifted. The club ...
Messi leaving Barcelona would be a massive problem for La Liga, who use the Argentine as the face of the competition. And every La Liga club was struggling due to the pandemic too, so Javier Tebas concocted a deal with private equity firm CVC that would see 10% of La Liga’s commercial rights sold for a €2.7 billion cash injectionacross all 20 clubs...
Aug 9, 2021 · (Reuters) Lionel Messi broke down at his final press conference as a Barcelona player. Since making his senior debut at Camp Nou in 2003, Messi has played 778 games for the Catalan club, scoring 672 goals. He claimed he wanted to stay at the club and had even accepted a 50 per cent salary cut to sign a new contract.
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Aug 8, 2021 · Aug 8, 2021. Lionel Messi broke down in tears when he confirmed he was leaving Barcelona after 21 years at his farewell press conference on Sunday morning. The 34-year-old described hearing the...
Aug 8, 2021 · A tearful Lionel Messi confirmed on Sunday he was leaving FC Barcelona after the club said it could no longer afford to pay its Argentine superstar's high wages without jeopardizing...
Aug 8, 2021 · Soccer icon Lionel Messi fought back tears Sunday as he bid a painful farewell to FC Barcelona. "I'm not ready for this," Messi, 34, said during a news conference at the club's...
Aug 8, 2021 · 1:05. Tearful Messi confirms Barcelona departure. Why you can trust Sky News. Lionel Messi was in tears as he bade farewell to FC Barcelona - but said he has not yet decided on his future. "I'm so grateful for the love people have shown me these years," he told a news conference.
