Off the pitch it is difficult to understand what FC Barcelona is playing at. Beyond overcoming Real Madrid – nor the miraculous water from the Wall!–, the current state of the club is disconcerting and still surreal, so that if today someone were to spread the rumor that Hristo Stoichkov is returning to strengthen the sides, no one would I would say insane.
The ongoing negotiations regarding a possible return of Leo Messi to the discipline of the club – note: it is a made up sentence – are likely despite some unfortunate precedents. It’s also not a question of charging luck against Barça: most of the legendary players have left through the back door. Di Stéfano left the White House facing the Bernabéu, Kubala was booed when he signed for Espanyol, a club that did not know how to fire Tamudo. These are not times of loyalty.
Neither Leo Messi – see burofax – nor FC Barcelona – the saying “this can be fixed with a roast” – knew how to find the right words to live up to the end of an exceptional relationship, which began with the signing on a napkin and ended with the joy of seeing Messi lifting the World Cup.
Back with a withered forehead…? According to and how Return in any way, asado style with potatoes, no. And not, precisely, because of the professed love and the memory of the good times. It is not appropriate to be protocol, authenticity is needed…
Would Messi add to this team? No doubt, but no cheats in solitaire. The club has a coach and a coach should be given stripes (or fired). If anyone should have the last word, it is Xavi Hernández, a star who knew how to leave in time. The day he answers the dilemma – without clichés – we will be able to comment on the rest. I doubt, alas, that it is so.
Would Messi accept a different role than the manaire, on and off the field? After all these years, I’m still not sure Leo Messi has enough humility to fit into his new, less stellar place, on and off the pitch.
You can expect everything from the board of directors: Messi is another lever, the sale of shirts, a knock on the table of self-esteem… The temptation to have a golden fuse is great, someone to whistle or on whom to polemicize to defer that the criticisms are directed to the box office. All subject to the control of the Enríquez Negreira scandal and the eventual punishment of UEFA. An affair that will not clarify this silence in which FC Barcelona has settled, Francisco Franco school (let the problems rot).
And above all, don’t tease her again, because they are already great and we know each other.
