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The blame game has already started at Barcelona - who is most responsible for the club allowing its greatest ever player to slip away when he clearly still has two or three years of brilliant football left?
The club's former president Josep Bartomeu will always be the man most attached to this catastrophic failure to run a football club properly. Had he not overseen the squandering of vast sums of money on the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele the club would not be in the financial mire, regardless of the pandemic.
He should have renewed Messi several seasons ago instead of breaking transfer records on players who have then been monumental failures.
The blame game has already started at Barcelona over allowing Lionel Messi to slip away
La Liga president Javier Tebas will be blamed by many for going too far with the Spanish League's internal financial fairplay rules.
One thing was to get Spain's house in order and radically reverse the shameful position many clubs were in - spending fortunes on players while owing the Spanish tax man huge sums, but could he have been more pragmatic after a pandemic that has wrenched 300m from the coffers of Spain’s clubs?
Surely it’s in La Liga’s interests to keep Messi and in Real Madrid’s interest to be cut more financial slack so they can make signings this summer? Could Tebas not have met with Spain’s big four club’s to thrash out a solution.
La Liga’s president deserves massive praise for making La Liga more
