Lionel Messi Breaks Down during Farewell Speech

I offered to reduce my contract by 50% and they asked for nothing else. A lot of what people are saying is not true. We did everything we could and it wasn’t possible.

Announcing the end of an Era at Barcelona, his time at Barcelona, Lionel Messi couldn't hold back the tears. Lionel Messi, the Greatest Player in the history of FC Barcelona broke down throughout the farewell speech. The entire episode was a confirmation of what we knew beforehand - Lionel Messi was shocked and devastated by the Club's announcement.

It was an emotional ride for not only the player and his family but for the millions of fans who suffered throughout the press conference. It's not easy to witness your idol break down in front of you like this.

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The End of an ERA. In the Most Tragic Way Possible!

This is no way to handle the exit of the Greatest Player who featured for Barcelona. But then coming to Messi, the Club has got a lot wrong than right in recent years.

Barcelona fans across the Globe is slowly coming to terms with the ultimate reality which was thrown at their face on Thursday night. We have been all going through the five stages of acceptance - denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance. I am pretty sure I am endlessly stuck in a loop that takes me back to denial and then whole up to bargaining. Like many of us, I am hoping for a miracle that says that this was done to only put pressure on Tebas, but Messi will stay!

The way it was broken felt like a classic play on poker table. This looked absolutely like a move to put pressure on Tebas to allow leverage with the salary cap. Everyone o thought that. That was the reason not even a single team raised an attempt of signing Messi. That all changed with Laporta's press conference.

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Does More Need to Be Done to Fix Barcelona’s Biggest Problem of Last Season?

Barcelona have made some remarkably high-profile, and equally as remarkably cheap, signings this summer. Memphis Depay and Sergio Agüero are the big names joining the attack, both for free, but alarmingly, the area that needed the most attention was the defence.

The only new addition that could help in this regard is former Manchester City centre-back Eric García. Still, as detailed in this The Athletic piece, he only played 35 games for City and is still only 20-years-old. While certainly a talented prospect, the Spaniard isn’t the upgrade that Barça’s stats would suggest they need.

Naturally, finalising a new deal for Lionel Messi and getting finances in order is the priority for the club, but should attention be turned to reinforcing the backline?

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