KingLeo10
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CR7 plays a lot closer to goal than Messi and has for about 7 years now. He's increasingly become a "striker"/box presence while Messi has increasingly moved away from the goal (away from False 9 and RW).
It's what it is.
Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi
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CR7 plays a lot closer to goal than Messi and has for about 7 years now. He's increasingly become a "striker"/box presence while Messi has increasingly moved away from the goal (away from False 9 and RW).
It's what it is.
JohnN
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Laporta trying to shift some of the heat..
malvolio
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"I love him too much to be angry," Laporta said of Messi during an interview with RAC1. "But there comes a time when you see that things just cannot happen, and there was disappointment on both sides.
"There was a desire for him to stay, but pressure because of the offer he had. He knew that he'd go to PSG if he didn't stay.
"He'll go down as the best player in the history of Barcelona and I want that to be preserved. Everything indicates that he had the PSG offer before leaving Barcelona. We knew he had a big offer.
"When it came to making the decision, I thought I was doing the best thing for Barcelona. I hoped there would be a change and that he'd say he'd play for free, but we cannot expect a player of his level to do that.
"We have a very good relationship. I knew that if we recovered financially we would compensate him, but we couldn't make demands knowing the offer he had in Paris."
Source | https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2021/10/08/616009b946163f66928b45b0.html
So now he's shifting the blame on Messi?
"There was a desire for him to stay, but pressure because of the offer he had. He knew that he'd go to PSG if he didn't stay.
"He'll go down as the best player in the history of Barcelona and I want that to be preserved. Everything indicates that he had the PSG offer before leaving Barcelona. We knew he had a big offer.
"When it came to making the decision, I thought I was doing the best thing for Barcelona. I hoped there would be a change and that he'd say he'd play for free, but we cannot expect a player of his level to do that.
"We have a very good relationship. I knew that if we recovered financially we would compensate him, but we couldn't make demands knowing the offer he had in Paris."
Source | https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2021/10/08/616009b946163f66928b45b0.html
So now he's shifting the blame on Messi?
malvolio
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Laporta could have kept his mouth shut and moved on. But by saying that he expected Messi to offer himself for free he shifts the blame on the Argentinian.
He also basically calls Messi a liar by alluding to the fact he always had the PSG offer on standby.
And all this happened after Tebas came out saying that we could have kept Messi.
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JamDav1982
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Saying he could have expected Messi to stay for free is strange and no real need for it when both have moved on.
Puts Laporta in worse light than Messi if the plan was just to hope Messi would sign for free which would never happen and rightfully so.
Fairly obvious Messi and his team would have been aware of what PSG could offer though. That is not anything ground breaking.
Puts Laporta in worse light than Messi if the plan was just to hope Messi would sign for free which would never happen and rightfully so.
Fairly obvious Messi and his team would have been aware of what PSG could offer though. That is not anything ground breaking.
Rassvet
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sad troll attempt
Hardy
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relax is true
Rassvet
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It just means that all the credit for winning Copa goes to Messi so good news if anything
You heretic, you left out Braithwaite.
Rassvet
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He would be there if not for Koeman, his injury, and the ref robbing Denmark
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