Welcome to another bonus episode of Take Line.

Leo Messi is left Barcelona, he's signed with Paris Saint-Romain.

The European football star, his leaving Barcelona is an earthquake.

One of the top three most iconic stars in sports.

It is the end of an era to dig into this.

I spoke with Simon Cooper, his new book, The Barcelona Complex.

The final Messi in the making and unmaking of the world's greatest soccer club comes out August 17th.

We talk about the entire Messi saga, as well as how Barcelona got to this point.

So Simon PSG is recently out the signing of Leo Messi.

There was much fanfare, it was a wonderful video.

Him and his family on the field, on the pitch, excuse me.

But I wonder if you could set up for our audience some of the context and what it means for Barsa to lose this player.

And then I guess more broadly, what Barcelona Football Club means to the region, what it means to Catalonia, what it means to Barcelona?

Well, this was sort of the happiest relationship between a player and a club, I would say, in soccer history.

Leo Messi comes to Barcelona at 13 from Argentina.

He has a growth disturbance, so he's at 13 that height of a nine-year-old and is looking like he's going to be about five foot two, three inches tall.

So Barcelona agrees to pay for his course of growth hormones because he's just brilliant player.

In five minutes in a trial training session, he commences them.

And they pay some of the salaries, family of salaries on like $150,000.

The whole family comes over from Argentina, they cry in the taxi on the way to the airport, they're riding Barcelona.

They don't even know it's by the sea, that's the price of this governor.

And then in the next 20 years, this tiny kid grows into...

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