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Messi’s Barca bombshell ultimate punishment for years of flopped transfers and spiralling debts – Fox Sports
When a player hands in a transfer request, especially when it’s your best player, it isn’t uncommon for fans to gather outside the stadium with said player’s shirt. Although usually those shirts are torn or even burning.
But when news filtered through of Lionel Messis fax to the club saying he wanted to leave and wanted to leave for free to boot fans gathered outside Barcelonas offices with his shirt raised aloft, in a protest against the club and how it has finally been run into the ground.
No matter how bad it has been over the last five years, since Barca last reached (and won) the Champions League final, where managers have come and gone following European failure after European failure, where millions of e…
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