With Barcelona In Turmoil, What Does Messi Want?
The Lead
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The world's biggest soccer club has fallen on hard times. The league title seems to be slipping away, and ongoing mismanagement continues to create problems within the organization. The Athletic’s Dermot Corrigan joins us to talk about what’s going wrong at Barcelona, what superstar Lionel Messi has had to say about it, and why the reticent superstar can sometimes make things difficult.
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| 0:00.0 | For some time now, there's been turmoil inside the world's biggest soccer club. |
| 0:10.6 | As Barcelona drops two points, there's no chemistry in this team. |
| 0:16.4 | I mean, there really isn't. |
| 0:17.6 | News of more turmoil in just the last 24 hours, six board members have resigned. |
| 0:23.0 | And caught up in the middle of it all is the team superstar, Lionel Messi. |
| 0:26.9 | Messi is not happy. He's not happy with the way that things are being handled. |
| 0:30.8 | He's not happy with the way that the club is right. |
| 0:32.8 | And so he now is coming out and saying so. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, the Athletics Durban Corrigan joins us to talk about what's going wrong at |
| 0:40.1 | Barcelona, what Messi has had to say about it, and why the shy superstar can sometimes make |
| 0:46.0 | things difficult. |
| 0:47.1 | The problem is that if you go to Messi and say what do you want, Messi himself is not really able to |
| 0:51.7 | articulate exactly what he wants. |
| 0:56.8 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 0:59.3 | And I'm Andres Keltow. |
| 1:00.6 | It's Friday, July 10th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:05.4 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:09.6 | There was just something about the emotion and that moment. |
| 1:12.4 | You gotta go first from first. |
| 1:13.8 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:16.6 | You can't pay. |
| 1:19.7 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
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