Similarities and differences between Maradona and Messi after being thrown out by Barcelona

He said goodbye to Barcelona believing he would die. As if that spasmodic crying pressed against her heart during the minute and a half of the final, agonized applause. He was at the front of the room like a heartbroken creature with a crumpled tissue, two immobile microphones and his gaze fixed on the front row, where his wife and three children were, who had been assured that they would continue to live in their usual home.

During the noon of Sunday, August 8, 2021, Lionel Messi felt that an unexpected and treacherous bomb had destroyed his idealized world because, incredibly, Barcelona had thrown him out. The journalistic reports were very generous and accurate in explaining the reasons for the strict compliance with the financial Fair Play imposed by the president of the League, Javier Tebas and also the surprising lack of reaction from Joan Laporta, owner of Barça, to offer alternatives.

Diego always said that Barcelona was an institution with discriminatory leaders. He gave examples of the differences in how they treated - and tolerated all behaviors - the Dutch (Cruyff, Koeman, Kluivert ...) or Ter Stegen (German) or Gary Lineker (English), with respect to the South American and African players. And in this sense, it is worth rereading Pablo Cavallero's note in Infobae of August 9, 2021.

In one of his paragraphs Diego says in 2017: “I know that Messi is going to go badly with Barcelona. Or, at least, he is not going to go as he deserves… I left the same. Barcelona, the Barcelona club, don't care what you give them, they don't thank you. They are going to pay him like they paid me ”.