He can't resign.
Because the club has a 100m deficit on the budget for this year because of covid...the board members will be responsible for compensating that loss if they resign. It would literally bankrupt some of them lol.
Yeah, Messi would have only been here for 1-2 years more anyway.
La Liga was always going to fall off a cliff after Messi/Ronaldo.
Best thing we can do is adopt a Bayern model and build a team with smart signings that are under the radar. Galactico policies would be suicide post-Messi.
Tbf aside from the joke of Barca competing for the CL...City will probably need a rebuild sooner or later and having Messi on payroll wont help with that.
Their defence looks shambles and they also have an aging midfield. Not sure if Pep will stay for 3 more years either.
They could also offer Messi the chance to become an ambassador for the City Football Group, the holding company that owns a number of clubs across the world, including City and NYC FC.
He's gonna be on that oil money payroll for life.
Sheesh!
Manchester City weighing up offering Messi a long-term contract that would see him move to partner club New York City FC after three years in the Premier League, several sources have told ESPN.
Damn...That's a pretty unreal proposition tbf
https://twitter.com/JorgeCalabres/status/1298391559596056576
Why Barto can't resign:
Bar?a's board of directors pressures Bartomeu not to resign under any circumstances. If it does, all managers should guarantee the club's losses with their assets. If it happened, some managers, who are not...
Lucho inherited a team with prime Messi, Neymar, Saurez, Alves, Pique, Masch, Alba, Busi and Iniesta all in it.
Dawg, Roy Hodgson could have probably come in here and competed for a treble with that team.
lol the squad aren't going to know what do at all. this guy has been our main creative and goal outlet for nearly 15 years.
Probably gonna be like Spain after Xavi left...only 100x worse.
This upcoming season is probably going to be the worst of all time. Whew!
We're going to have a massive identity crisis on the pitch dawgs. Nearly 15 years of everything running through this cat and just like that it's gone.
Hard to believe!
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