Sergeant Wilson Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Jake Dalziel used to give Airdrie players a job working for his bakery and part of their wages was paid that way. I'm sure someone at Barca could give Leo a job. If it's good enough for John Flood it's good enough for Messi. Flood abandoned his van after a couple of hours and never went back, but I don't think Messi is that type. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 18 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Jake Dalziel used to give Airdrie players a job working for his bakery and part of their wages was paid that way. I'm sure someone at Barca could give Leo a job. If it's good enough for John Flood it's good enough for Messi. Flood abandoned his van after a couple of hours and never went back, but I don't think Messi is that type. Reckon he could have the makings of a cracking pastry chef. Imagine he'd have very nimble little fingers to work those delicate, intricate patterns. Make him an offer, Jake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I love stories like this. The people running huge football clubs love to portray themselves as glamorous yet serious business people. Stuff like this shows that many of them are just fucking daft. Strong Rangers vibes about Barcelona just now. It's been a few years of people connected to Spanish fitba sort of whispering and sort of speculating that they're in real bother, but it's always been quite hard to believe. Serious problems, and, frankly, I'm all for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 The state of this Tory shite. Imagine thinking it unreasonable that the greatest player of all time, and still the best player on the planet (the worker) should do his job for a fraction of his worth because the club who have made close to a billion euros a year in turnover (the employer), which he has significantly contributed towards, have mismanaged their finances to such a pathetic degree. Now imagine that the worker had actually already agreed to accept half of his previous salary, significantly below his market worth, so that he could stay, but the shambles of an employer still couldn’t make it work. Is there any other industry in the world where people would question the worker in this instance? Of course there isn’t, because it’d be fucking mental to do so.You can spin it to whichever way suits your personal argument tbf. If you read the line "Tax dodging multi-millionaire devastated his employer won't renew contract even after accepting a 50% pay cut" you certainly wouldn't be thinking 'poor guy, he was willing to take a cut', would you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, TheJTS98 said: I love stories like this. The people running huge football clubs love to portray themselves as glamorous yet serious business people. Stuff like this shows that many of them are just fucking daft. Strong Rangers vibes about Barcelona just now. It's been a few years of people connected to Spanish fitba sort of whispering and sort of speculating that they're in real bother, but it's always been quite hard to believe. Serious problems, and, frankly, I'm all for it. It's mad to think that, genuinely, Messi would still be a Barcelona player and the club would be in vastly better shape right now if they'd been run by the board of St Johnstone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 19 minutes ago, GordonS said: It's mad to think that, genuinely, Messi would still be a Barcelona player and the club would be in vastly better shape right now if they'd been run by the board of St Johnstone. Surely they’d have just loaned Messi to St Johnstone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, 19QOS19 said: You can spin it to whichever way suits your personal argument tbf. If you read the line "Tax dodging multi-millionaire devastated his employer won't renew contract even after accepting a 50% pay cut" you certainly wouldn't be thinking 'poor guy, he was willing to take a cut', would you? It's not really about sympathy for him or no sympathy. It's about adhering to the principle that absolutely nobody in the world should ever have to - or feel pressure to - work for nothing. In this case it wouldn't make any difference anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Great few days for Barca. They’ve just announced Agüero is out for 10 weeks with a calf injury 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) @J_Stewartouting himself as a pathetic little man child Edited August 9, 2021 by RawB93 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Premier Sports still got viewing rights this season? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Great few days for Barca. They’ve just announced Agüero is out for 10 weeks with a calf injury A player they can't even bloody register at the moment as well. They are the gift that keeps giving at the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 10 minutes ago, Michael W said: A player they can't even bloody register at the moment as well. They are the gift that keeps giving at the moment. Los años de bromas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 17 hours ago, RawB93 said: @J_Stewartouting himself as a pathetic little man child Delete this immediately or you WILL be hearing from my solicitors 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Balague claiming the Messi to PSG is a done deal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58159464 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 No love for PSG but Ramos, Messi and Donnarumma is some free transfer haul tbf to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) Yeah, that transfer window is undoubtedly the best in history given what they've gotten from it. They can f**k off all the same, right enough. Edited August 10, 2021 by Michael W 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red23 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 what an utter bellend messi looks over this. crying because barca won't pay him 600k a week so he will have to move to get it, what a travesty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 All solidarity to the proletarian warrior Lionel Messi taking the Qatari blood money. I can’t believe Barcelona have forced him to do this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Aldo Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 I know that PSG have signed a few good players on "free" transfers but the signing on fees, agent's commission and player wages must be astronomical. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Messi is a tax dodger and FC Barcelona are a shambles; both true. That said I have loved watching Messi for all these years and will still watch him when I can. The greatest football player I have ever seen and a few seasons back, when Xavi and Iniesta were still playing, the best club team I have ever witnessed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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