'The Messiah' - Lionel Messi V.2

Balague's book discusses the relationship between the two, insisting they are not friends but act politely in public for the benefit of the media.

The Spanish football journalist claims several players at the Bernabeu relayed the information to him, and that Ronaldo not only calls Messi by 'motherf*****' but anyone who is caught speaking to his Ballon d'Or rival.

'Ronaldo, perhaps as a symptom of the immaturity that marks so many footballers, thinks it necessary to put on a brave face in front of his team-mates, not be scared of Messi and to rise to the challenge,' Balague writes in his book, serialised by The Telegraph.

'All very macho; all very false. And that is why, according to some Real Madrid players, CR7 has a nickname for him: "motherf*****"; and if he sees someone from the club speaking to Leo, he also ends up being baptised "motherf*****".


All tho Balague is a piece of shit anyways and I wouldn't take what he says seriously, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was true neither.

Ronaldo denied it on FB and said his lawyers will take action. Ballague.

Why people write false things for attention is beyond me. Like seriously.. no one would even read his piece of shit book if he hadnt put that in there

FennecFox7 wrote:Why people write false things for attention is beyond me. Like seriously.. no one would even read his piece of shit book if he hadnt put that in there

You answered you own question.

He makes stuff up, sounds interesting...people want to read the book.

I didn't watch Argentina's game. Anybody got some news on how Messi did? I read he played on the right

He played well but Croatia put 7 first timers on the pitch. Finishing still iffy. What the hell happened to his finishing?

Poor finishing is usually a function of how tired a player is.

It's also a function of number of burgers someone eats, I reckon.

Tata still feeding him with DAT Argentinian BBQ?

In your last CL game against Ajax, Messi again was chewing something the very second before kickoff, standing there in the middle circle.
Can anyone tell me their thoughts what that is about? Don't recall seeing any other player ever do that

A bubble gum probably. He has those vomitting issues.

It is a mystery what has happened to his finishing.Couple of years back,he was lethal.As lethal as anyone I have ever seen.Now he misses sitters every game.

Fußball wrote:A bubble gum probably. He has those vomitting issues.

I don't think it was a chewing gum tbh. There's one image where you see him chewing like you chew food, and then swallowing hard, as if to get it down. Right before kickoff.

Check it out on the lastminutegoals full match recording or something (don't know if it's appropriate to post links here)

Maybe he is tired. Maybe that explains his finishing. He's ran and played allot of footy since he came into the first team. Plus he constantly looks frustrated on the pitch, like he wants to get back to his lethal goal scoring form but he just falls short.

When your fresh, you react first. When you tired, you think about reacting before you actually react; your body is a tad bit slower to do what you want it to do. Which might be exactly whats wrong with his finish.

Btw, I keep reading he was beats on the right for Argentina so I wouldn't be surprise if Lucho moves him out right and plays Suarez centrally (ala when Messi first came into the first team and Eto'o was the striker with Ronaldinho on the left....except this time we would have Neymar on the left. Rakitic would be our new Deco etc)

Lucho already moved him to the right against Almeria and Ajax in the 2nd half. I would actually move him there as well for a period and see if he can regain some physical sharpness when he has to cover more ground from wide and gets to take on 1 fullback regularly with more space and without being crowded by 3 or 4 or 5 players as it happens in the center.

tbh messi already plays like 1/4 of the game on the right, 1/4 in midfield and the other half in the center.
moving him to the right would leave a hole in our already odd midfield system, i rather have messi drop deep then suarez.

We looked much more fluid with Messi on the wing against Ajax. We also looked much more fluid when Messi was injured last season. Messi dropping consistently, offering no runs, always demanding the ball, not pressing and moving only 8 km per game in the center of the park might actually be what is crippling the system right now. Although I'm not saying this is true or not. Just a quick thought. Suarez is as elite as it gets as a central player. Even as a passer. But above all he runs non-stop.

We have hit the post 11 times in La Liga and Messi has 6 of those

Honestly wish they didn't call him up for these friendlies and they let him stay in Barcelona and rest during the break. Dude needs to regain himself more than what Argentina needed him for pointless games.

Strange how there isn't any mention of his recent interview here nor in the GS.

He didn't say anything shocking. He basically said "I'll stay at Barca as long as the club wants me to" which is basically what his stance has always been.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:He didn't say anything shocking. He basically said "I'll stay at Barca as long as the club wants me to" which is basically what his stance has always been.

while adding something like "complicated, especially with the situation at Barca right now", which of course makes people speculate what it means.

Is anyone even worried?

Didnt give it a second thought.

Its bout time.

Its bout time.

Hapless_Hans wrote:

BarrileteCosmico wrote:He didn't say anything shocking. He basically said "I'll stay at Barca as long as the club wants me to" which is basically what his stance has always been.

while adding something like "complicated, especially with the situation at Barca right now", which of course makes people speculate what it means.

Exactly.

The Franchise wrote:Is anyone even worried?

Didnt give it a second thought.

Not worried because he has a contract until 2017 and a € 250M buyout clause so it's not in his hands anyway to bail out on his own terms and logically it should be impossible to sell Messi in 2015 during a transfer ban or in 2016 before elections. But logically the club should have also bought better than Vermaelen who is yet to debut in November (and not good enough to begin with even when fit) and Douglas to reinforce problematic positions before a 2 window transfer ban, let alone the Nerman fiasco, let alone the "let's sell Thiago to make room for Cesc and then also sell Cesc a season later to buy the flavour of the month Rakitic" fiasco and many other things. No doubt in my mind that the current board is genuinenly considering to sell Messi to make Nerman the #1 face of the club and fund their stadium project. It's definitely in their minds. This is still Rosell's project under Farto. They just can't fully justify it yet. Maybe if Suarez also starts to bang them in alongside Nerman and Messi remains his current good but not great goalscoring form they can start to advertise for Nerman-Suarez-Reus to justify selling "past his prime" Messi for triple digit millions.