Getting Lionel Messi split in your stomach. How idiot do you want it? | Football

Valentine Driessen

Ⓒ René Bouwman

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sport">Ronald Koeman personally promised at his presentation and to Lionel Messi that he would form FC Barcelona’s new team around the Argentinian superstar. A few days later, Messi’s infamous fax message arrived that he wanted to leave. He had had it with the club management and Koeman was for him the umpteenth trainer in a row who could pull the Catalan pride afloat with new ideas.

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