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The more words I hear/see coming from his mouth, the more I don't want him here. He got absolutely lucky the last time he was in charge. A great youth system to build off. The transfer market wasn't as mad as it is now. He still spent 452m euros and only got back in 142m euros. It seems he's...

Laporta is living in denial. I know he has to say stupid stuff to try and get elected, but he knows damn well he doesn't have the money to sign players like Haaland and Mbappe. The players we will realistically bring in are Depay, Gini, Garcia and maybe Gaya on loan with an option to buy...

Man City can certainly afford him. He won't be getting anywhere close to what he is with us. As for Laporta, I think it's going to end in disaster. It's a totally different time when he was in charge. People seem to forget that his first season with us wasn't great at all. We finished with 72...

If anything, if City won all those trophies that'll make his decision even easier. I find it hard to believe that Messi will struggle in City. He's still too good of a player. He won't have to carry the load at City. If players like Ibra, Ronaldo, Vardy are still banging in the goals, I don't...

Even if Messi goes, we still can't afford to spend 75m. Our debt is too high. There are still too many players who are on big salaries that need to be sold or released. We'll probably sign Garcia, Gini and Depay in the summer. All free transfers who won't be on big salaries.

Messi is always going to get media attention regardless of what he does. He's used to all the media stuff.... bad or good. Regardless, I think it's smart of City to sit back and let Messi decide his future and not put pressure on him. There's no need to put pressure on a situation when he's...

He'll make his decision either at the end of March or early April.

It can easily happen. Age isn't a factor if he's still a top player. His salary won't be anywhere as close as it was for us, and they'll easily make that back from his marketing. They also have Pep as a manager.... and he'd love to work with Messi again.

He won't be going to be PSG either. They simply can't have Mbappe, Neymar and Messi in the same team due to the FFP. They just lost 200m euros in revenue due to COVID and lost a lot from their TV deal. If anything, they'll have to sell or release players to balance the books. Mbappe won't be...

We don't have 75m to spend. Besides, I doubt he'd want to come to a Barcelona team that's in transition. He'll have better clubs to choose from. Our summer signings will be free and low fee signings. We'll also have to loan out and sell players to be able to do that. We're in massive debt and...

You're denial if you think we have a chance of signing Haaland. We're in massive debt. He'll cost too much money. Even if we sell players, the money has to go towards the debt, and we have to sign players on realistic fees. Unfortunately, we have to be very sensible about this. We've overpaid...

They can easily get both. Haaland won't be on that big of a salary.... maybe 175k to 200k a week. Messi will be free, so they'll only have to cover his salary, which won't be anywhere close to what it was with us. They can also sell certain players like Mahrez and Zinchenko, so that'll help...

Which team is in terrible debt? Messi's marketing doesn't pay for himself here due to the amount of debt we have. He does pay for himself at City because they're not terrible debt.

Why wouldn't Pep/City want him? Pep loves Messi, and Messi's still a top player on his day, and if he plays in that City team, he can still do serious damage to other teams. He doesn't have to do a lot of running around if he's playing like a playmaker. I personally feel he'll do great in a team...

You're acting as we can easily sell players like Coutinho and Pjanic. I doubt any decent teams will spend any money on them, especially due to COVID. Even if we loan those 2 out, that still won't cover Messi's salary. You're basically saying we should sell or loan out half our team just to...

But we can't afford to keep him. We're close to bankruptcy. The only way Messi stays if he takes a 70% to 80% salary reduction and agrees to lower his bonus fees. Also, he'll have to give up his signing-on fee. Oh, and we'd probably have to either sell/loan out Coutinho, Pjanic... and other...

What sense does that make to Messi? He'll be playing for nothing in a pretty average team. So, he'll be pissed off whilst getting nothing for it. This isn't Sunday league football.

City's salary outtake isn't that bad compared to the other big clubs. Your biggest earner is De Bruyne... and he's only 350k a week, and then it's Sterling. The rest of the team is on like 250k or less. I think you pay around 125m a year for your whole squad. As I said, it isn't that bad. You...

How? As you just said, his signing-on fee will be massive. He'll still be on about 600k a week..... which won't include bonuses. He also gets another 33m from his loyalty bonus in the summer. We simply can't afford to keep Messi, unless we want to sell half our team to ease the debt and keep...

Huh? He's out of contract in the summer. He can sign for any club he wants to for free. He knows he won't get 1m a week next season, so you don't have to worry about that kind of salary.