I agree.
I'm pretty sure the fan base must have mixed feelings about it, they won't open hate on him but I'm sure the socios reckon the club is in a difficult position and it might be for the best, long term, to part ways with him. Then even if they were able to sell him and get rid of his wages they would still need to get rid of players like Griezmann, Dembele, Couthino, etc. as almost everyone is being overpaid.
Yeh nothing to do with the obscene amount of money messi is getting out of Barcelona.
Some further details of the contract include the fact that the Argentine winger earns a fixed total of €138 million per season, which increases based on certain variables -- namely statistical targets and club accomplishments. He was also given €115,225,000 as a "renewal fee" for accepting the contract, and an additional €77,929,955 as a loyalty bonus.
I can assure you very very few Socis want Messi gone, but would gladly get rid of 90% of the other players after recent CL humiliations
Well yeah, I'm sure everyone is blaming on Bartomeu of everything but the current situation does represent a handicap having numerous players on huge wages while trying to negotiate a new contract with Messi all while pretending to assemble a competitive squad.
We don't immediately discredit them. We look at the arguments and we find them lacking.
Any business that offers an employee more than they can afford to pay him only have themselves to blame.
According to the article:
yes we would. People travel from all over the world (plenty from America) just to see him. I’ve been to camp nou many times abd met several people who don’t care for football at all but hear all these great things about Messi so they choose to see him play. They museum has like 20% of it dedicated just to see Messi. It would be like when the Chicago Bulls lost Michael Jordan.
You don't happen to live in Barcelona do you? That club was huge before Messi. It will be after Messi. Apart from American sports not translating to European football at all, Chicago Bulls only became great by signing Jordan and building a team around him. In this equation, Barca is the Lakers or the Celtics.
I hear you, and Barca do need to move past Messi eventually. Pedri and de Jong aren’t enough. But they’ll need to land another marketable star, Barcelona had their biggest highs with Messi and he won’t be there to paper over the cracks anymore
I am sorry but that match day revenue figure has been pulled out of someone's arse. There is absolutely no way of telling whether that is true unless they have some sort of box on the the ticket sales that ask if they're only purchasing due to Messi.
A wild statement
how can you talk nonsense like this without even seeing what his next contract is? At least wait and see what the next contract is
why am i not suprised with this
were you only becoming Barca fan because of Messi? Kinda funny from a club whom proudly labeled themselves as "Mes Que Un Club", or rather should we change it into "Messi's Club"? 
been a fan before Messi ever arrived. It’s just weird to make assumptions when nothing about his next contract has been mentioned. He’s still an absolute worst case top 3 player in the worldwhy am i not suprised with this
He's still the best player in the world atm but thats not my point, my point is that he should be more willing to make personal sacrifice for a club he's supposed to love, for the club who gambled and paid his medical treatment. Good that youre a long time Barca fan so i dont need to remind you that Barca are a big club before Messi and will always be after Messi.
sure and I appreciate that, but all I’m saying is can we wait for the contract details before jumping to conclusions? If Messi continues to ask for 40M a year then sure, throw him under the bus for being greedy. All I’m saying is let’s wait to hear the details before jumping to conclusions
Barto has made one hell of a mess for sure
He needs to be held accountable for what he's done to that club.
he should legit be up for trial, but if we are being very honest the whole more than a club thing has been a joke for quite some time
40M a year for Messi would be a bargain, but i suspect he ask more, far more higher than that as his previous contract was worth 200M per year.
.I honestly don’t know think so, he knows how broke the club is. I’m thinking max 25M a year and they have the contract include extra years for his MLS days and being an ambassador to the club.
Probably some sort of Ambassador role for next 10 years in return of a normal salary.
Even then City would not pay him more then 50M in Salary last year but he would probably got huge Signing on Fee.
