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Barcelona: The war for Lionel Messi lurches toward mutual destruction

By Keith Lisenbee

(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on September 5, 2020 shows FC Barcelona's president Josep Maria Bartomeu (L) speaking during a press conference at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on October 2, 2017 and Barcelona's Argentine forward Lionel Messi attending a training session at the Joan Gamper Sports City training ground in Sant Joan Despi, on December 17, 2019. - Lionel Messi said on September 4, 2020 he will stay at Barcelona but only because the club's president Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his word to let him leave. Messi's stinging attack on Bartomeu and the club means his future still remains in doubt. (Photos by Josep LAGO and LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by JOSEP LAGO,LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)
(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on September 5, 2020 shows FC Barcelona's president Josep Maria Bartomeu (L) speaking during a press conference at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on October 2, 2017 and Barcelona's Argentine forward Lionel Messi attending a training session at the Joan Gamper Sports City training ground in Sant Joan Despi, on December 17, 2019. - Lionel Messi said on September 4, 2020 he will stay at Barcelona but only because the club's president Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his word to let him leave. Messi's stinging attack on Bartomeu and the club means his future still remains in doubt. (Photos by Josep LAGO and LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by JOSEP LAGO,LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images) /
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The battle for the soul of FC Barcelona has gone nuclear.

People who have had their spirit, mind, and body trapped, imprisoned, and numbed will never reach their full potential.

Lionel Messi will not reach the height of his greatness this season.

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The Argentine was coerced into “agreeing” to stay at Barça. He is genuinely unhappy playing for an organization he has been connected with for 20 years.

In Atlas Shrugged, the individuals who were producing for their enemy and having their work stolen from them by force went on strike.

I hope that Lionel Messi will go on strike in the spirit of individual achievement, productivity, and greatness.

This move would be an act of heroism that would reverberate in football, culture, and politics.

At best, fans of football will get a Messi that is heartbroken and shaken on many levels. It will not be his best season. He may not physically go on strike, but he will mentally.

The six-time Ballon D’Or winner launched a nuclear strike in his interview by illuminating the lack of morality, ethics, and vision of Barcelona club president, Josep Bartomeu.

The Barça president has acted immorally and has made decisions that are not in the rational best interest of his most outstanding player, his club, and himself.

As a result, Bartomeu has hit a string of dominos that will eventually destroy him professionally and personally. For example, recent reports suggest that he will be charged with corruption in the “Barçagate” scandal.

It appears that the new FC Barcelona president will inherit a club that has been the victim of the mutually assured destruction of each party.

Both the team and its most outstanding player will be spiritually decimated by the cumulative effect of all the internal battles that have flared up over the years.

This is a war where no one will win.

Messi will walk through the next season a shell of his greatness, a zombie, a victim of radical altruism leading to morally bankrupt power. Barcelona’s moral compass and ideology will be broken almost beyond repair.

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Let’s hope that the rest of the culture, sport, finance, and politics built on individual freedom survives its current ideological war.

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