#bartomeu

I am officially pissed off. Recently I’ve seen tons of people criticizing Messi every time Barcelona lost a game (and there were a lot of them). And I don’t get it. They blame him for not scoring (for other players not scoring), for walking, and for being a bad captain… The list goes on.

Even after the last game with Cadiz. We had obvious mistakes made by the defense, but still there are a lot of comments, blaming Leo for the result. They demand Koeman to bench him or the club to get rid of him. But BIG NEWS! He wanted to leave. He tried to leave. People said he was too old and finished. They claimed he had to leave in order to give the young ones a chance. Well, Pedri is playing. Ansu had played until he got injured. Mingueza has got his chance. So how is that Messi’s fault again?

But still. The guy wanted to leave. The club said no, so he stayed. Just imagine. He wasn’t happy at the club. He realized that he and the club would be better off if he left. And when they had denied him, he stayed. And the thing is, the guy won the last Ballon d’or. He had been chosen as the best player in the world more times than anyone else. You can’t lose that overnight. The class, the physique, the skills… you can’t just lose them. However, you can lose your confidence. You can be in a such bad place mentally, that it will affect your performance. So knowing that he is in a bad place, that he’s miserable, the “fans” put more pressure on him by criticizing his every move and blaming him for every problem the club has. Yay, guys! That will definitely help! Now he’ll perform better. Thank you!

Let’s admit that he’s stuck in Barca until the summer. So the best thing the fans can actually do to help the team is to support him and his teammates. Because even though we got rid of Bartomeu, we still have to deal with all the mess he left. Stupid transfers, economic crisis, etc. We still have players that we ultimately didn’t need to sign in the first place. And now we have a bunch of footballers, who play in the same position, and the lack of defenders. Plus, the team has got almost zero chemistry. Koeman has to work with what he’s got. However, people are still expecting Barca to be the best club in the world. How?