Spanish media: Messi makes Barca the best team in history! His departure left Barca to decay!

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On December 13, Beijing time, the Champions League and Europa League will be drawn for the round of 16. Barca, who had never played or even been discussed playing in the Europa League during Messi's time, were going to compete for a title that had nothing to do with them before in the first season after Messi left. The Europa League teams are not weak either, with Haland Dort, Red Bull Leipzig and Napoli, and Sevilla, who often win titles to rename the Europa League the "Sevilla Cup".

While Barca also want a Europa League title, it's clear that playing in the Europa League is already the first step to losing the season, which means the Champions League group is out. Although there are Bayern in this group, Barca have been squeezed out by Benfica and have only scored 2 goals in six games. Barca's abandonment of Messi, Griezmann and Suarez are all goalscorers who are very good at scoring goals. It is understandable to abandon Griezmann and Suarez because of objective reasons such as salary, strategy and age, but abandoning Messi is a decision that is difficult for anyone to accept.

On December 12, the Spanish media "Daily Sport" published an article lamenting Barca and Messi in the post-Messi era. They said: Messi has made Barca the best team in history! His departure left Barca to decay! Although the headline of the Daily Sport is indeed strange, called: Messi is indirectly responsible for Barca's decline! But this is actually a compliment to Messi.

The Daily Sports newspaper article said that he was a headline party, and the author wrote "Don't just look at the headline." Next, he praised Messi, saying: Barça with Messi has won countless championships, and Barça without Messi will go to hell. Messi is the key to Barca becoming the best team in history, but unfortunately, no one (mainly management) expected how terrible Barca in the post-Messi era really is.

The article pointed out that Bartomeu, without proper reconstruction, operated the team's salary beyond the limit of affordability, which was the beginning of the Barca collapse. La Porta found that Barca did not have the money to renew Messi's contract and could not legally register him (mainly in La Liga). Messi brought Barca to the heights of the world's most important club, but after he left, Barca immediately relegated to playing in the Europa League.

So the author threw out the headline of the view, "Messi is the indirect head of Barca's recession", but he also said that no one can blame Messi because of his forced departure. Messi's departure left Barca with a huge hole to fill, but no one could get the job done. The team lost its leader, golden boot and soul. Messi is here, young people can play football well, without Messi, Barca is too difficult. Indeed, Barca, with Messi, may also stop in the round of sixteen, because the hypothetical opponents of the round of 16 that replaced Benfica are all giants except Lille, but they will not be able to qualify for the group stage.