Lionel Messi is anticipated to make his footballing decision in the upcoming hours, and the only thing that appears clear is that it won’t be at Barcelona.
Since he left Argentina when he was 12 years old to pursue his ambition of playing football, Messi has only wanted to go back to that area.
The Financial Fair Play limitations that will be in place for coming season also make any ambitious plan to bring him back an impossibility.
But, rather than admit this, Barcelona prefer to give the print they’re making inexhaustible sweats to bring him home- only for them to be pushed back moreover by Messi or the allegedly’ draconian’ limitations put on them by the league’s governing body.
It’s simply not true.
director Xavi said history that 99 of what was needed for the player to return to the club was down to Messi himself. maybe that’s what Xavi has been told, but it’s all words and putting the emphasis on his decision is grounded on an designedly wrong reading of the affair.
These are the moments when brigades start to put their plans in place. And with plans for his return putatively now dead in the water, it’s damage limitation time for Barcelona as they set about trying to show they did everything possible to bring him home.
Messi’s platoon made it clear he was prepared to play for whatever pay envelope that would have helped Barcelona stay the right side of FFP regulations and he’d indeed be prepared to play for free if asked- although that’s neither respectable to La Liga or indeed legal under Spanish law.
The French reviewL’Equipe said there was the possibility of Messi being inked by Inter Miami and also going on loan to Barcelona. This is an idea that has come from the American club, but noway had any chance of going past the talking stage.
How can Inter move Messi to be inked by them and go on loan to Barcelona for many months? The player, for many the stylish ever, would feel like a commodity.
In any case, despite being bandied by the two clubs, at no point has any offer along those lines been made to the player himself.
The blameworthiness La Liga is to condemn is risible. They’re followed by crazy allegations La Liga also has in placeanti-Barcelona regulations. It’s the exact contrary.
La Liga rules are in place to cover clubs, Barcelona included, from possessors and directors financially ruining them.
The temptation when directors get plutocrat is to invest it in players when the reality is they should be as important or more concentrated on paying debts and perfecting structure.
Due to the operation of’ fiscal regulators’ that allowed Barcelona to invest in the club last season, but will not be suitable to be used again, they presented a liquidity plan lately to La Liga. This was in addition to the budget plans that all clubs have to give, to prove to the league they’re living within their means.
The reason they’ve to give these plans is to assure the league that any redundant incoming plutocrat won’t be spent in a way that could jeopardise the future of the club.
The temptation of spending on players, rather than on important- demanded repairs or debt disbursements, is akin to buying prohibitively precious developer cabinetwork to place in a living room, while there’s a massive hole in the roof.
Clubs present budget plans which show their income minus allnon-sporting fiscal commitments and any outstanding debts that need to be serviced.
What’s left is the plutocrat available to pay players. It’s over to Barcelona if they want to use all that plutocrat to pay for Messi, but they’ve noway indicated they want to do that, rather suggesting they need to register Ronald Araujo or Gavi with their new contracts first.
The reality is the club still have massive debts to cover and their spending capacity will be veritably limited.
That information will arrive officially from La Liga to Barcelona in the coming many days, but the club is veritably apprehensive of those limits, which won’t be blazoned to the public until after the requests have closed to not affect transfers.
Meanwhile, you hear false stories in the Catalan media about how La Liga and Barcelona are holding meetings to talk about Messi, and there’s only a space of around 40m euros(£34.6 m) between what the club have presented and what La Liga wants to resolve their FFP situation. This, again, is untrue.
The most worrying aspect is that, with the distraction of Messi, people aren’t realising since the appearance of chairman Joan Laporta, the debt is neither being reduced at the rate it needs to be, nor being reduced in sufficient amounts to allow them to have a budget for the players that will allow them to be competitive in Europe. Written By Guillem Balague Spanish football writer
