The Messi-Cast: Messi stays - but for how long?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Ed Malyon and Sam Lee bring you immediate reaction to the news that Lionel Messi will stay at Barcelona.
How does this u-turn affect Manchester City? Could they still make a move for Messi in January or next summer? What does it mean for Barcelona? And what does it mean for Messi's legacy?
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| 1:03.7 | In the last hour, Leonel Messi has broken his silence on the transfer saga of the summer. |
| 1:10.2 | The president did not keep his word, says the six-time |
| 1:13.5 | Ballandoor winner. He says he'll be staying at the new camp for another season and revealed a long-standing |
| 1:19.3 | disagreement with President Bartomeo. I mean, it's astonishing interview. I'm here with |
| 1:25.0 | Manchester City correspondent Sam Lee to discuss what |
| 1:28.2 | this means for Man City, what this means for Leonel Messi himself, what it means for Barcelona, |
| 1:32.5 | and what it might mean for Messi's legacy down the line after he tried to leave the club for free |
| 1:36.7 | and the club held him to that 700 million euro clause. Of course I had a hard time deciding, |
| 1:41.2 | Messi said, I always said I wanted to end here. I wanted a winning project and to win titles with the club. The truth is there has been no project or anything for a long time. They juggle and cover holes as things go by. So Sam, as I watch this crazy video of this interview with him wearing his flip flops saying all this stuff about Barter and Bartameu. I mean, there's no doubt at all, |
| 2:01.3 | is there that the city genuinely believe they could sign it. Yeah, yeah, I think I was genuine |
| 2:04.6 | enough. I mean, we did a story back in February on, you know, City sensed an opportunity. They |
| 2:10.3 | knew he was unhappy. They always knew it would be a difficult one to pull off. And I suppose |
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