If we do not add to the headline that Messi stays that he does against his will, the most important part is missing. It is true that days of anxiety for Barcelona are coming to an end, that 2 to 8 will no longer be the last creepy memory we will have of 10, that he will be able to have a farewell at the height of his legend and that the dispute will not end in a court of law, but I find it hard to see a happy ending when the player who has given us so much joy is trapped in the club of his life.
What we now know for sure – at least Messi’s version – is that his initial decision to leave was not a rebuke this time as a result of a bad result but a thoughtful product of the conviction that the club does not have a sports project but a juxtaposition of juggling and especially the fact that he no longer saw himself with the heart to contribute his magic.
The events make me think that Messi wanted to play a game of cards intuiting Bartholomew’s weakness, but he was wrong: he did not measure his strengths well in terms of his fragile legal strategy and despised that they were would have with a black belt of chaos and escapism.
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