Who is to blame for Messi’s exit from Barcelona?
Al Jazeera
Is it Barcelona’s leadership and its mismanagement of the club or La Liga’s tough regulation rules? Or something else?
Even something as beautiful as Barcelona and Lionel Messi’s 21-year love affair can be broken by the cold, hard logic of debt. Like the tragic end of a romance film, Messi did not want to leave Barcelona, and Barcelona did not want Messi to go, but alas, a force more powerful than both broke them apart. The man whom many consider the greatest footballer of all time cried at a news conference on August 8, telling the Catalan media that he had no choice but to leave: “The club did not want to go into more debt.”More Related News