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It's unbelievable!

It's Roch, it's Friday and a pod, numb, shocked, and saddened, like the rest of the world.

The news of Lionel Messi's departure from Barcelona. And Barcelona without Leo.

Truly the office without Steve Carell. Storries a genius, it is the end of an era of human magnificence.

Honestly, hard to believe this, Barcelona have cut ties with the single greatest player in the club history.

I mean, a man so immense, even bloody Adam Schaefter is tweeting out updates. That is how seismic this moment is globally.

A man who came to the club as a boy, 13 years of age, because the catalans were willing to cover the cost of growth hormone treatment that Messi needed at the time.

And that investment, wow, did it ever, paid for itself so many times over. As Lionel proceeded to thrill the world and give all of us who witnessed his transcendence, collective memories that will last forever.

Blimp sing, that diminutive gent, single handedly dismantled teams over and over again with his vision, his agility, his creative genius.

As as close as we may come to watching a tiny Marvel comic superhero win fight scene after fight scene and to capital.

They now carried himself with another worldly humility and for much of his career, appeared to be one of the only global superstars who looked like his hair had just been trimmed at supercuts.

We'll break down Messi's news and options in this podcast along with Jack Greenlich's arrival at Manchester City, Beaky Blinders, $140 million for him.

And City got his calves for free, that and a lot more. But can it be any coincidence that Lionel Messi hears Ray Hudson is no longer commentating on Barca games and is just like, sod it, I'm out of here.

Let's hear a Ray Hudson Messi gasm for all time's sake.

Genius of geniuses is like Dr. Spock, he's out of his vulcan mind, absolutely out of this world. Lionel, look at the took away, look at the pace, he falls this field up in warp speed, Dr. Spock in warp speed.

Magisterial Argentina, Magisterial Leo.

We will no doubt we're talking about Messi a lot more next week, including Wednesday, 6pm Eastern time, we'll be doing a preseason magnifical Spotify Green Room which we take all of your questions ahead of this shiny new season that lies in front of us.

And then this Wednesday on Spotify Green Room download the app, come join us, we'd love your questions, come up on stage and make my day sting me up, producer Jonah.

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