The bigger story behind Messi’s move to Paris.
, Barcelona with Messi was spending 110 percent of its revenues on salaries. Somehow in the club’s statement last week, all this was translated to “financial and structural obstacles,” which, coincidentally, are the same things keeping me from being the owner of FC Barcelona.
PSG, meanwhile, will add Messi to a roster that already claims two of the best attacking players in the world, his former Barcelona teammate Neymar and 22-year-old French dynamo Kylian Mbappé. How long that trio will stay together is an open question; Neymar already left Barcelona in part to escape Messi’s shadow, and Mbappé was supposedly ready to move to a more competitive league this summer.
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