Why Messi's time in the US so far echoes his time in La Liga
and 21 goals in all competitions for Paris Saint-Germain, the team from which Inter Miami signed him. Barcelona would have happily taken him back in the summer if not for their precarious finances.
For the most part he’s still got it. He shows ‘it’ less often than he used to, but ‘it’ is still there.. Which is not to say that MLS is a bad standard, or that it’s a pub/farmer’s/retirement league , just that there are higher quality leagues out there and Messi could probably be playing in them, if he so desired.
After it was confirmed that Messi would not be returning to Barcelona earlier this year, the club released a statement that was laced with bitterness, but contained an element of truth. “President Laporta understood and respected Messi’s decision to want to compete in a league with fewer demands, further away from the spotlight and the pressure he has been subject to in recent years,” it read.It was meant as a dig, but it isn’t really.
And that is true for most of the time. If Saudi Arabia was spraying all of this money around in 2012 or Messi took up an offer from MLS and he left Barcelona back then to play somewhere less competitive, it would be a shame that he was potentially using his best years by competing at a lower standard. Not now, though.We’ve had Messi in our lives for approaching two decades.
He doesn’t owe us a damn thing, but he can give us a few things. Like as many reminders as possible of his genius. Messi is like a band you love but whose creative peak was a little while ago, and while you don’t really expect anything more innovative or new from them, it’s still great to see them play the hits.
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