Messi destroyed Barcelona to dust

[KTChampions]

Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, ​​which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.

[Stablexcoin]

I wont call it greedy. Once you know worth then keep your value to be at the top range. Messi is the best player in the world am not surprised he requested such amount from Barcelona.

You can agree with me that Messi made a great impact to the club, won trophies including the UCL, local league and other trophies to the club. He was part of the team that Barcelona the most deadly team in the world years back. Is'nt he worth the money?

[Joca97]

He is one of the best players in history of this sport and he deserved this. Barcelona i think even profited of the field with him aswell. Everybody wanted to get a Messi jersey everyone wanted to see him play so i think even with this large contract they profited a lot. Because everything was around him

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Very difficult to be on a side.

When we see this numebrs we clearly think ahead only one thing and is a greedy and a non sense ammount of money, but when you start to see it more and more in detail, maybe its not that bad considering he is the best player in football history (for a lot of people) and how much Barcelona worth and profit for having him?

Only in merch it can be thousands off dollars, players who wants to play with him and for that comes to Barcelona, etc. Thanks to him Barcelona starts to fight for real against Real Madrid, and Barcelona started to be a real contender in eveyr UCL. Look at them now..... back again in his normal track since his departure they are the same shit as they were always, a wannabe club with  good years but not a real treat.

[BABY SHOES]

A fantastic figure for Barcelona to spend this much money on Lionel Messi.

Messi at Barcelona did everything he deserved because this player is considered a miracle in football, he has contributed a lot to the club even won many trophies including awards to him, club benefits? Obviously...

But after losing Messi does this club not get big funding anymore?

I don't know... now Barcelona's financial crisis is starting to show after Dani Olmo couldn't be signed up.

[Justbillywitt]

Messi didn't force Barcelona in this contracts, Barcelona and Messi camp had an agreement before any contract was signed. Messi brought so much money to the club, so it's only natural for him to earn that amount of money. If Barcelona management at that time thinks that the money that they proposed to Messi before he accepted the contract was too much for them to handle, they wouldn't have come up with such contract proposals. Let me ask you, if you were Lionel Messi and your club presented you such a lucrative contract will you reject it? Barcelona wanted to keep Messi at all cost and Messi accepted and did his job professionally throughout his stay at Barcelona.There is no need blaming Messi for Barcelona financially woes.

[Perfectbaby]

Barcelona wouldn't accept to him such amount if there were no profits from him, to me Leo Messi actually deserve such amount and provided Barcelona is okay with the which he's changing then I wouldn't see it as someone who is wrecking the club. If they can't accept to pay him such amount they will categorically voice out and sign up another more players.
The offer was based on agreement between both parties and there's nothing wrong with what they pays him.

[stompix]

Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.

New champion? This is from 2021 and everyone knew this, besides , Barca was still in profit:
https://everythingbarca.com/2021/02/05/lionel-messi-generates-barcelona/

Marc Ciria, a Barca socio, and CEO of Diagonal Investments has found out just exactly how much money the club legend brings in for Barcelona. He did this with the help of Josep Fabra, a financier, and Ivan Cabeza, an economist. Together they have managed to find Messi’s value to the club and to no one’s surprise, the player brings in much more than he is paid. The player made 383,655,000 euros over the 3 years but he has generated 619,265,000 euros in the same time period. This means that the player has made the club a profit of 235,610,000 euros.

Let's not compare him with Neymar, that guy was money pit, he didn't bring back even one-quarter of the sum they spent on him

[Upgrade00]

It's slightly unfair to try to make Messi the sole cause of Barcelona's financial crisis. There are lot of factors, mostly at the top management level which has led the club to the position it is at now.

To the numbers he is being paid when you look at the number he provides on yhebpicth which resulted in lots of success for the coub and also his numbers on merchandise, you'll see he's worth every penny he was getting paid.

It's important to note that Fabrizio only highlighted the contract for the last 4 years, he played 13 years at the club.

[len01]

Both parties benefit and I think the loss that Barcelona is currently experiencing is not about paying players a large amount, because both parties already have an agreement.
Messi is a professional star player and when he is offered to join a team, it means that the team already knows that the salary that must be paid is very large. And if the team agrees, it means that Barcelona is able to accept the risk.
So this loss should be questioned to the management who fully manages Barcelona's finances, not blaming the players.

[LTU_btc]

Not sure why thisstuffstarted to spread now as it was already published maybe 4 yearsago. And I completely disagree with opinion that Messi destroyed Barca. No, he didn't. Messi earned every euro that he got paid and he was worth it. He is best player in club's history who won so many trophies for club.
Terrible management and failed huge transfers is what ruined club. Starting with transfers worth over 100 millions like Coutinho or Dembele. Griezmann can be called as failure too. Butthere is some other big transfers which also affected Barca debt into negative side - Semedo, Pjanic, or Malcom.

[bettercrypto]

Personally, I don't know Messi, but according to what I see in the comments of other people here, he is a famous person in sports if I'm not mistaken. Because he probably wouldn't have been offered such a large amount if he didn't deserve such a talent fee.

Barcelona may have believed in Messi that's why they gave him that contract, and I also think Messi did everything for what Barcelona expected of him even though the result was not good.
Then another thing is that Barcelona gave Messi such an amount of money and Messi just accepted it as a trust in him as his talent fee and popularity that he also has,
what do you think?

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, ​​which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.

We cant blame anyone for this, if you think you worth a particular amount of value, then try to place a demand on your worth and if the people can afford it, they will give a patronage on you, don't blame Messi the same way you cant blame other players, everyone of them has their own hierarchy and once they have gotten to the peak, there is nothing to do to add up to it, maybe we are also forgetting how money is being involved in football, there are many we don't even hear about their worth or value they are being paid.

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Messi’s contribution to the world of football is undeniably significant. This simply shows misplaced priorities at a systemic level rather than being solely Messi’s fault. I think the financial collapse of Barcelona and its impact on the club’s transfer policy due to poor financial management.

Do you think the financial collapse could have been avoided if the balance between honoring the club’s legends and maintaining its economic stability had been managed better? Or was this truly inevitable given the nature of football economics?

[Antotena]

Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, ​​which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.

He destroyed Barcelona? You never said Messi held Laporta in a gun point to sign the contract. If Messi is been paid a billion a year, he is worth every penny of it because he was delivering everything they need, it's pay to get what you wanted and contract was sealed. When they knew they couldn't cope with such a big offer, they would have juts humbly declined the offer and said no but obviously, there is more they were getting that's why they sealed the deal.

If you want a quality job, you definitely need to make payment in order to get good work, that's all I see in this deal. People can speculate all they want but nothing bad here. Beside, Barcelona was scared another club would have borrowed money to get him and it's going to be at their disadvantage seeing Messi in his prime and where is the lie, when was the last time they finish any league when Messi used to be around, they are struggling every day till now in that club, stop blaming Messi.

[bering]

Messi can help Barcelona to gets plenty of trophies and one of those trophies is Champion League trophy and since Messi leave Barcelona never able to lift this trophy again so this proven Messi contribution to Barcelona is very huge so he deserved to gets the contract with fantastic amount of money and i think Barcelona financial crisis is not Messi fault because in the past Barcelona president Joan Laporta has a habit that he always spend huge money to buy players and giving high salaries not just to Messi so long term effect from this habit is Barcelona has facing financial crisis which until now this problem is still unsolved

[promise444c5]

He worth it imo, for them to have signed such contract , it means they really want him to stay in the club, Laporta wasn't forced to renew  it anyways  ...
Moreover, if they are not willing to sign it, do you really think another club won't sign it... I mean look at him , over his stay he won alot of trophies plus  six Balon D'or  under the name of the club , giving them extra achievement as a club . And he did keep to the very last  agreement , he was very loyal to the club until they couldn't keep him any longer yet he's still loyal to some extent.
Does that make him a club destroyer??

[yenom]

The main question is, does the club afford to pay that much to him? If yes, then I don't see a problem here. As long as they are getting one of the top players in the world back into the club, they are okay with the price they have to pay because they know it's worth it. They have seen that the club hasn't been the same since he left, so they had to get him back somehow.

We don't know what happens on the inside, but a player of his caliber surely deserves an amount like that. These clubs earn a lot of money from multiple sources, and they wouldn't make a decision like this if they felt it was too excessive and can cause them financial problems.

[bitbollo]

There is nothing strange. We have seen such crazy salary since 90'. Mostly this will be just "debt" for the club

I think that here you can see also another key... how FIAT money is losing constantly value.
Items that have a real value and can help on achieve a profit (like a famous football player or stocks) are just gaining more and more value in FIAT terms.

[Ambatman]

Well I guess Barcelona wouldn't call it a bad deal
Because they benefited alot from his prowess and fame
Even down on getting players to play in the club because Messi was there.
Yes the amount is astronomical in LA Liga level but we can't dispute the fact that he's one of the Best players in History.
And such players that exhibit such consistency are undeniable assets in a club.