Messi clashes with ‘The club of next week’

Leo Messi arrived on vacation ready to face a new season at Barcelona, ​​with Joan Laporta at the helm of the club and without Josep Maria Bartomeu. He held the new president in esteem and the feeling for the future was promising. The renewal of his contract had been delayed for different reasons, until the day and time were finally set. He returned from the beach to sign, but was met with a slap like never before.

Laporta closed the door on Barça alleging fair play problems and Messi was on his feet in the street of the club that he arrived at when he was 13 years old, with which he had touched the sky and in which he had become the ‘fucking master’.

For the first time in his life, he had to look outside of Barça. And he did not do it of his own free will, but because that president told him so, who, perhaps, weeks before, had voted in the elections. Messi did not believe what had just happened. And much less his family, whose children had all been born in Barcelona and already had their friends.

The best player in the world had to go. And he did not know where because he had not contemplated any other option than to continue at Barça.Suddenly he landed in Paris, a city that lives with its back to football, in a dressing room full of well-known names but without being a team, in a style of play in which it was difficult for them to receive the ball, in a tough league, in a city where it is not easy to move and with some citizens whom he did not understand.

Little friend of changes, Leo found his world turned upside down. It was difficult for her to enroll her children in school because they arrived late and the family suffered for half a year the inconvenience and impersonality of a hotel, with sad dinners in rooms. Not even the best contract served to feel comfortable in an environment that was uncomfortable for him. The team did not quite work and his game suffered from so much strangeness of the sun, the tiki taka and the Castellefels beach. The first months were lousy, the first year was difficult.

And now it’s time to end the stage in Paris. He said goodbye without much euphoria and without knowing what fate awaits him. Leo Messi wants to return to Barcelona. He always wants to come back. In fact, to which they have been able during these two years, they have taken a private flight to land in El Prat. A getaway to remember happiness.

The question that comes now is… Is it time to return to Barcelona? In order for it to be so, he must make sure that the same thing that happened two years ago will not happen to her again. That she waited and waited and was left with a span of nose. Because it can happen to you once, but if it happens to you twice… it’s going to look like you’re stupid.

Messi’s desire to return clashes with Barça, which has become ‘The club of next week’: “10 to resolve the harassment of fair play”. “One more week of extension.” “In the end, it will be next week…”. Total, that Barça has been waiting for months for the green light to start negotiating with Messi. Is this scenario too complicated to put an end to the mistrust that Messi has had for two years? It seems.