The news that Lionel Messi certainly, probably, we will-believe it-when we-see-the-Millwall-badge-kiss-with-love-in-our-eyes, caused a pretty strong reaction. Tears, anger, speculation, shock, not to mention hundreds of live blogs: there has been no media hype since Weird announced Uncle Fiver to go to Tinder.
After scoring nearly 700 goals, winning all major trophies and establishing himself as the second best player of his generation, Messi deserved more. Football itself too. A departure can tell a lot about the culture of the time. Diego Maradona had a brawl on the pitch in his last game at Barcelona, leaving Napoli out of favor (sic) when excessive dust was found in his siren. Zinedine Zidane’s last appearance as a professional footballer was tee-off to drive his granite noggin into Marco Materazzi’s chest. And now, through no fault of his own, and with the registration of 0.0 on the rock and roll football meter, Messi is leaving Barcelona for using the accounting response to O’Reilly, the builder of Fawlty Towers.
Barcelona president Joan Laporta, who inherited the chaos on his return earlier this year, said keeping Messi would require a compromise that would have put the club at risk “for the 50s for years to come”. Mind you, given the success of Barcelona’s latest calculation of the numbers, the correct number could be between the next five hours and the next 500 millennia. It would be easy to criticize Barcelona for what will become one of football’s great fiascos, a time when Mes Que un Club became Mes Que un Mess. But there are many complaints. La La Liga certainly has some responsibility for the ruthless support that its fine FFP print applies to Barcelona and Real Madrid as well as all other clubs. Barca, with hundreds of millions of pounds as a reward for existence, pride themselves on themselves.
The two favorites to sign Messi are Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City. now [Messis Unterzeichnung] is not in our heads, absolutely not, ”said Pep Guardiola earlier today, coincidentally at the exact moment when The Fiver realized that he had not yet thought about how much he was going to drink tonight. Messi has reportedly reached out to PSG head coach Mauricio Poch Ettino and is keen to form another acronym attack. In the glory days in Barcelona, it was MSN; Now it’s MNM’s turn, or Eminem, if you really want to get carried away. Pochettino received the keys to the pastry shop when he inherited Mbappe from Neymar and Kylian; Sign Messi s It would be like discovering that behind a secret door there is also a miniature Disneyland, WITH EVEN MORE FREE CANDIES. Unfortunately, a boiling, boiling winter threatens for his Barcelona colleague Ronald Koeman. At least he still has Pedri. At the time of writing.
“Wow! That enriched my day. It actually made my year ”- Union Jack Grealish barks with joy after receiving the Manchester City No 10 jersey that Sergio Aguero vacated last season. That and probably the £ 370,000 a week we bring in football
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The winner of our priceless letter of the day is… Paul Harrop NEWS, BITS AND BOBS Juventus presented a non-ridiculous apology after a post on their women’s team’s official Twitter account on Social Media Disgrace revealed that the player was Cecilia Salvai made an insulting gesture
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With a flimsy team on the eve of the season, Wayne Rooney made a habit of sleeping in the office to put Derby in some sort of state. “I’m a fighter,” he roars. “I grew up on an urban estate in Liverpool, so I don’t run away from challenges so easily.”
Pep Guardiola wants Harry Kane like The Fiver wants that sweet first sip of Purple Tin on Friday night, but he knows he can’t have it if Spurs keep him under wraps. “Harry is exceptional and we take care of him, but when Tottenham doesn’t want to negotiate[thereisnothinglefttosay”[dagibtesnichtsmehrzusagen”
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