Leo Messi en su despedida del Barça: ¿ángel o demonio?

Leo Messi en su despedida del Barça: ¿ángel o demonio?

Sergio Ramos' sentence about Messi encloses the dichotomy with which the still Barça player is judged. "He has earned the right to decide, I do not know if he will be doing it in the best way". His counterpart in Madrid avoided the adverse conjunction but, stating a clear opinion that Messi has succeeded in enabling him to choose his future without interference or obstacles, and leaving the doubt whether his course of action is the right one.

Right or privilege? Star mistreated or divorces? Big door or back door? The two faces of the same T-shirt, opposite poles in a hobby and an environment in which for the first time criticism of the 10 is emerging, until now untouchable, at least in a public way, because there are those who have looked at Leo and his core with suspicion for some time, both outside and inside the club, but always privately. In the same way that there are, and probably are majority, those who defend Messi as if they were human shields, eternally grateful for their football, enervadamente contrary to Bartomeu and his directive. The meeting, for now, has not unlocked anything.

Puyol was the first who said a lot with little. " All my support, my friend", wrote as soon as it became known that Leo had sent a burofax communicating that he was terminating his contract with Barça under the clause liberatory of end of season, June 10 on paper. Luis Suarez soon applauded the tweet.

His stalwarts claim that his story in Can Barça is more than valid argument to decide to put an end to his Barça career, executing the clause at the end of this atypical season, which was the spirit of it. As you know, he wants a winning project and at 33 the Barça is not in a position to build it in the shortest possible time. It will not be because I had not warned him. And in the last renovation, recognized by Bartomeu in his day, he asked to be free at the end of this course.

His defense is a direct attack on Bartomeu, the same line of all candidates for the March elections. Joan Laporta,, Toni Freixa, Emili Rousaud or Víctor Font have made their respective pleadings pro Leo by shooting the president, who all have a motion of censure cooking with signatures at the request of Jordi Farré.

These critics reproach that with each decision this Board has been pushing Messi out of Barcelona. Broken trust, lousy sports decision-making, misplaced signing, unable to bring Neymar back... A cluster that has ended up demotivating Messi forcing him to leave where he never wanted to go.

Critics of Leo are likely to be less, while at the same time sparing in the media. Of what can be considered environment, only Gaspart has armed very critical with the proceeding of Messi: "Do not forget that the member loves the club more than the player". The former president, who cannot be denied, always speaks from the heart, said: "I don’t understand you leaving. Well, I do understand. Because I know these moves well from the football players. We all want him to stay at Barça. He doesn’t want to stay? What happens? That the millions of members who ask him to stay are not worth it? Is it believed that Barça has not helped him to be what he is?".

In Gaspart’s affected speech are the arguments defended by those who censor Messi’s actions in recent weeks. In the same way that Messi has given both to Barça, also the club has given to him. Starting with the best contract in world football and going on to surround him with players who took him to the top of football, which has not happened with Argentina. Leo is what he is for Barcelona, under whose shirt he deserved to win five Golden Balls, which would never have come for his performance as an albiceleste.

It is also expected from a canterano who has been in the club for 20 years and who is also a captain other forms, share the critics. The symbolism of a first contract signed on a napkin when Leo his family were looking for a life opportunity and a burofax communicating that he leaves the club for free of his life, abandoning him after the biggest affront suffered in Europe surely in its history. Can you imagine Totti doing something like that?

A captain who by the way is not yet heard (or read) an apology or an explanation to his fans after 8-2, no longer his arguments to explain why he wants to leave. The forms could have been different, because it runs the risk of confusing the part, Bartomeu, with the whole, Football Club Barcelona.