In The News: 07-14

The chairman commented that “the player wants to play for both FC Barcelona and Argentina.” He praised Messi’s “great maturity” in this case. “FC Barcelona is ready to help him do both,” added Laporta, after pointing out that Messi has not completed any preseason in the last three years

Im finally giving up on this situation. Barcelona will surely triumph unless Messi suddenly realizes that country comes before club.

A recent poll shows the majority of Barca fans do not want Messi to play in the Olympics. As someone mentioned earlier, the Olympics are not a big deal on Europe and if a player was lost to injury there would be a huge uproar.

Like most I feel bad for the kid. I don’t see why the compromise solution offerd by Laportra (who is straight just like me and Toddutah) would not be accepted by all.

regards,

bottomline; Is Messi a sissy? We will know soon

John,
please do not post anymore. this is your last warning

My last post on this blog was on 2:43 pm. The 2 previous post under my name were made by the imbecil impersonator that thinks hes funny.

day1star do u have a link for the japan-argentina game sorry if i bother you!
thx.

Posted from  Serbia And Montenegro

Hold on Alfio, i’ll see if i can find one, and it’s not a bother.

I still respect Messi and think he has done right but the next few days will show what he really wants. FIFA please make this easy.

Posted from  United States

Alfio, so far i have only been able to find highlights, the links fot them are:

http://www.rojadircta.com/foros/viewtopic.php?t=44695

or

http://www.ole.clarin.com/

The Barcelona stance, and the Barcelona fan stance, is cynical. They act like international football is nothing but a burden - that they are the victims - that they only get injuries and tired players out of these tournaments. This is so nauseatingly cynical — players make their name in international events. Club teams reap the benefits (as in cash) after every world cup, when legions of fans discover the game of football, and the superstars in that game, as a result of international games.

If I have to hear one more comment about how Barcelona paid for Messi’s hormone treatments, I’m going to run amok. They did not do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They saw that treatment as an investment, and the dividends have already paid off. They’ve already reaped the benefits of that investment. He doesn’t owe them anything. The treatments don’t give them the right to keep him in indentured servitude for the rest of his career. What a bunch of cynical bastards.

I get the sense that Messi’s going to have to go against his own father’s wishes if he plays for Argentina. His decision has to be made by tomorrow, becuase that’s when they leave for their ridiculous tour.

Meanwhile, all that time where Riquelme and Messi were supposed to be learning to adapt to each other’s game is going out the window.

Posted from  United States

messi comes messi stays, does it really matter to the squad when already has so much depth and tallent, put a dedline for a decision and then carry on watever
cheers

Posted from  United Kingdom

sqrew messi

mabye we should not call him back on the team for a while

Posted from  Canada

Totally agree with you Alexa, i got that same impression from reading Barca fans opinions, they reckon Messi is a paid for commodity. Barca paid for his hormone treatment from the goodness of their hearts, what a joke! They saw a 13 year old kid with massive potential, and i reckon they must have been over the moon to realise that his family and club could not afford the treatment, i can just imagine the $ signs rotating in their eyes. It’s all bollocks, no club does anything from the goodness of it’s heart, always there is somewhere a $ sign rotating.

Tomorrow we will know one way or the other.

James, you watched the match, is it just me or did Riquele have a bad game?

sorry, should be Riquelme.

yes yes the big bad club only interested in money….is there something wrong with that comrades? The objectives of any club is to win and be profitable.

I am reminded of the nonsensical ramblings of Blatter referring to players as slaves! Sign me up to be “a slave”. The implication is that clubs are bad but players are are virtuous creatures who would play the game for free if it was up to them. “Oh think of children won’t someone please think of the children.” Reality is most of them are prostitutes who go to the highest bidder.

I am not referring at all to Messi who as I said has comported himself with nothing but class unlike some of his supposed fans.

regards,

ps lets remember who that Barcelona paid for Messi’s hormone treatments

I really hope that thi sis decided tomorrow . If FIFA rules against barcelona again then Messi better be on a plane the next day. You know barcelona will just say they are going to appeal it and try to convince messi that he should go on the tour but as far as I am concerned if FIFA rules for ARgentina that is where messi should be and if it is overturned on appeal later than Messi can go back to barcelona. I think that Messi will need to finally let everyone know in a strong way that he wants to play in the Olympics and FIFA supports that decision so adios I am off to China.

Posted from  United States

Ah! The troll/trog is back.

Toddutah, I can’t see Messi doing that, if he was on his own then yes, but his father won’t let him. Messi would be at the Olympics now if his father hadn’t made him stay. His first statement on this subject was, ‘i will be at the Olympics no matter what’.

I’m not sure if Riquelme had a bad game (didn’t see it), but from the highlights his free kicks and corners looked as dangerous as ever. it would be hard to judge the japan game of how well the team played since it seemed to occur under monsoon conditions. One thing though — playing in the pollution of Beijing will be hell on wheels.

Posted from  United States

From what i saw, he wasn’t playing well there was no link up to the front two, we weren’t creating very much, in the end, we counter-attacked with Aguero playing a nice pass from deep to Di Maria, great finish.

John,
I finally agree with you.you are a fine intellect

day1star,
we will see whether Messi give in to Barca. I hope you are right in him standing up to Barca. I doubt it though.
saludos

Hi there everyone,

Haven’t posted anything in a while as I was pretty busy at work. But I supposed the main topic is still very much the same.

At this moment of time, I’m getting the feeling of giving up on Messi. Sad to say that I’m going to say this but I’m kind of getting fed up with both Barca & Messi. Please understand my feelings here as I’m firstly a proud fan of the Albiceleste, yesterday, today & forever.

But I feel there is need now to question Messi desire to play for Argentina. One moment he says he is going to Beijing, the next he is training with his club teammates in Scotland.

Didn’t anyone have ever thought him that action speaks louder than words?

I have to agree with the great Diego that Messi must stand up against Barca and stay firm on his decision.

I also think there is big conspiracy from Barca to stop us from winning the gold in Beijing. Spanish sports as a whole is having a great year from football to tennis to cycling. They wouldn’t us to take away the gloss from them. So now they are trying to prevent us from achieving something.

The worst thing is that many Barca fans (or even Spanish fans for that matter) are always trying to associate the Beijing 2008 with the Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Therefore they don’t support the idea of FIFA in releasing players for the game.

My Spanish amigos please don’t mixed politics and sports. It’s just not right. After all didn’t the Catalonians choose the Camp Nou as a place to voice their displeasure under Spanish rule?

Well with that said, I will hope Checho will consider on bringing someone else to replace and Messi. Let’s prove to the whole world that Argentina will always be Argentina, with or without Messi.

Having said that, here is my message to the Atomic Flea; La Liga, Champions Leagues are held every year. The Olympics only comes once in a lifetime. Please be wise. Or you might live to regret forever.

By the way, please check out the result for the 2008 MUNDO ALBICELESTE AWARD on the following link

http://mundoalbiceleste.blogspot.com/2008/07/2008-mundo-albiceleste-award-results.html

Posted from  Malaysia

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=797469

so it seems Messi will finally go to the Olympics..

Posted from  Canada