FAREWELL LIONEL MESSI...
By LONN PHILLIPS SULLIVAN @LonnPhillips Forgive me....this may be one of my Messi-est pieces of writing ever....and I just don't care..... I can't even believe I'm having to write this....so please, bear with me as I try to write out something coherent, shorn of typos or errors.... but I doubt we'll be getting there today. Even though I wrote countless pieces on how or why Josep Maria Bartomeu's actions would potentially cost us Lionel Messi , and this and this ..... I never would've believed Barcelona, or any top club for that matter, would find themselves in this current situation....the greatest player of all time....wanting to retire as a Barcelona player...accepting an unheard of 50% wage reduction....and yet, Barcelona, the richest & most valuable club on earth at one point, financially going toe to toe vs Real Madrid for the biggest players on earth every summer for more than a decade at the top, are now losing Lionel Messi for free....to P