Why Lionel Messi Might Actually Leave Barcelona (And How To Start Fixing The Club)

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Even writing that title felt weird. But the biggest transfer saga of the summer is underway, and it's one we never thought we'd even consider. After Barcelona were humiliated by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, rumours abound that Lionel Messi has finally had enough of life in Blaugrana, and fancies a new challenge. Now, we've heard these rumours before. So we thought we'd bring in someone who had a deep insight into the workings of big transfers at Barcelona. Cue Marcelo Bechler, the man who first broke the news that Neymar was off to PSG, and who on Sunday night, wrote the first article that Messi could do the same, setting the football world ablaze. We got Marcelo on to separate fact from fiction, and work out what Messi's thoughts really are. And then onto the club as a whole, a bloated mess from top to bottom. Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondent for ESPN and Sport, joined us to talk what the next steps are to trying to steady a sinking ship, and what can be achieved ahead of the planned elections next year. Oh and we take a deep dive into the appointment of Ronald Koeman, and how he might fare in the hot seat at the Nou Camp. Enjoy, Rank Squad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Afonzo Davies and you're listening to BR Football Ranks.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome to be our football ranks.
0:23.9	Now, it is the Eve as we record this of the Champions League semifinals.
0:28.5	By the time you're listening, one of them, if not both, will have already been played.
0:32.5	So what we're going to do is completely ignore them.
0:35.0	However, there is arguably a bigger story. Now, Barcelona crashed out
0:40.5	of the Champions League, 8-2 to Bayern Munich. And a couple of weeks ago, we did an episode focused on
0:45.7	Real Madrid, but we did focus a little bit on the way that Barcelona were looking. Now,
0:51.5	things have completely and utterly changed in the weeks following that. And
0:56.2	we're going to take a deeper look at whether Messi really wants to leave, the appointment of
1:01.1	Ronald Kerman, and basically one earth is going on at Barcelona and the next steps they can
1:05.7	try and take to fix things. My name is Jack Collins, and I will be your host today and joining
1:10.5	me as ever,
1:11.7	rank God, Mr. Sam, Ty. Hello, my friend. Hello, Sam. And of course, our very own
1:17.4	transfer guru, Mr. Dean Jones. Hello, mate. Now, normally I would come straight to you, Dean,
1:23.5	on the fact that Messi might be leaving this, but I know what you've done is called one of your
1:28.8	pals who was the man who broke this story. Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just have to accept, as I've
1:35.0	said before, that people have got better contacts than you in some situations. And this is definitely
1:38.8	one of those situations because I wish I was the man breaking the story that Messi's decided
1:43.9	he wants to leave Barcelona.
1:45.6	Sadly, I'm not.
1:47.2	So the next best thing was to reach out to Mr. Marcello Becler himself
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