Laporta’s guarantor explains Messi’s departure: “You couldn’t create a new team with him inside”

That the output of Leo Messi was dramatic in Barcelona does not change the need for it for the new era that opened with the arrival of Joan Laporta. At least that’s how he sees it Joseph Elijah, the maximum guarantor of the Barça in these moments and a clear voice authorized to direct and illuminate one of the most painful movements of the culé fans. The president of Audax, a renewable energy company that did bet on this new culé era, did not hesitate to stoke the Argentine and point out his age to give him an outlet. It was not only an economic question.

“You had to create a new team and with Messi inside you couldn’t,” he said Joseph Elijah in the program The cassock, where he went and left numerous headlines around the Argentine’s departure from Barcelona: “Messi is old enough not to be at Barça.” José Elías himself was the author of some statements that throughout the bombing that led to the goodbye of the 10th, brought a tail. He explained that Messi should have been sold much earlier and not let him go for free as he ended up being, which did not allow the club to get something for the most important player in its history.

«What I said is that, as culé, as Jose ElijahIf we had let Messi go a year earlier, we would have made some money. If we had taken 100 million euros, it would have hit me with a song in my teeth “, explained Barça’s maximum guarantor, who far from being there, predicted what few wanted to see, the decline of the Argentine:” The end of Messi It looked; If it wasn’t last year, it was this one and turn the Barça in a winning team it happens to do a project post-Messi. A decision had to be made at some point. Messi is old enough not to be in him Barça. And they tell me: what did you want, for him to retire here? Well no”.

It was difficult to read or listen to opinions contrary to Leo Messi during his stage in the BarçaIt was a taboo subject, the Argentine himself, his person and as a footballer. But with your goodbye Elijah makes it clear that in the Argentine’s departure there was a bit of everything. The clear difficulty that existed in adapting his enormous salary to the reduced salary limit that the Barça, which exceeds 100 million euros for very little and which even forced the Antoine Griezmann in the last minute of the summer transfer market. How did you plan to register Messi?

Beyond the economic aspect, which was already insurmountable, Joseph Elijah manifests the need to take a sporting turn and start a new era without Leo Messi, without the best player in the history of the club who, in his opinion, was no longer old enough to be in the Barça.

Regarding the economic aspect, Elijah He delved into this aspect and explained it like this: «Barça had financial and organizational limitations. With the pasture that you had to let go of, how do you then go to Piqué and tell him to lower his salary. There were three reasons why he couldn’t go on. First the salary organization of the club: they had to face salary cuts that were difficult to defend. Two, we had no money to pay him and we were doing the bridge handstand backwards to pay him in installments, which is what they are doing at PSG. You have to deceive yourself to believe that you can continue. And three, you have to create a new team and a new illusion and with Messi inside you couldn’t.

Elías went further and also pointed out the Argentine during his farewell and how Messi faced his exposure, questioning whether his tears were due to his departure from the club: “It is the law of life. And he screwed me up the day Messi left. But I think people mistook the tears, to the parrot. Apart from many people telling me that I did not renew Messi, that he is the biggest bullshit in the world. Messi did not cry for not being at Barça, but he was crying for a number of things, not because he was not still at Barça (…) Messi was running out of a cycle. And to that is added that he has made life in Barcelona and that people were integrated ».