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Saul Gomez

Mr. McCann

English 1301 127

11 September 2021

Draft 

One of the world’s best footballers, Lionel Messi, has signed with Paris Srt-Germin for a

two-year contract after leaving his lifelong club Barcelona. This information I got from a post

made on the BBC news platform on Instagram. Underneath the post, there is a hyperlink that

takes you to a website called BBC Sports. The website informs that Messi had not left but was

kicked out of the club. The Barcelona franchise couldn’t put him in more due to many problems

like covid, etc. Many supporters of Messi were really upset to hear this news because he has

made the Barcelona franchise win some champions league. That wasn’t the only thing affected

but also the whole league because Messi is a big part of the La Liga Santander, the Spanish

soccer league, and Messi’s salary went down according to BBC News. Thanks to BBC News

using its big platform on Instagram to inform about these big impacts in the soccer community. 

Messi is a known player because of his soccer talent and everyone in the world may

know him. The people from Barcelona fell in love with the way Messi played and not only that

but Messi took them to win up to 3 champion leagues. Which is a very big thing for any soccer

community. Messi's dream was to always play with that team no matter what. Many fans thought

that it would stay like that, but it didn't. This caused a very big commotion for the supporters of

Messi. Many people were super upset because he had wasted so many products of his in the

Barcelona league. Fans started to turn into a snake in the grass of the soccer community due to
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this trade. Many of them would go to the internet and talk bad about their idol without knowing

the reason he had been traded. As a fan of the world’s best soccer player, it hurts seeing one of

the greatest players walk away from his home where he was raised and cherish his whole life.

Knowing he tried anything to stay on the team to the point where he went to the extent of saying

to reduce his contract by 50%. 

This trade went into more than just a problem with the fans but with La Liga Santander

and the Spanish soccer league. La Liga Santander is a league which is for sponsorship reasons,

stylized as LaLiga which are teams but only with professionals in the soccer community. Messi

is in a game in which he played a part of something and then out of nowhere you can’t find him

where he has been the entire game. This cost a lot of confusion and makes everyone upset. Well

in those games in La Liga Santander they play for sponsors which they sponsor a certain player.

Take acknowledge that Messi had played for that one team his life and been taking pictures and

poster with his team. Now that they moved him around a different team’s sponsors have to redo

everything on him or they just give up and get someone else. Sadly, Messi is not going to play in

the Spanish league which is the first in 17 years of his life due to the trade. Messi had played

with Barcelona his entire time and now that he moved the league had already started so he was

not able to have a chance to play. This messed up people’s heads because he is the best to ever

do it and he wasn’t playing the game. This is like an artist trying to paint a piece of art without

his paint and brushes. It wouldn’t impact as much if it was anyone other player but Lion Messi

the guy with the most goals, assists, goals in a single season, most goals in a single club, most

trophies won in club history, and the only one to win not t 1 nor 5 times goal de’ora but 6 times. 

It impacted everyone including the legend himself. When Messi was a free agent, many

teams didn’t offer him as much money as his first team. Messi’s life was going very well in
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Barcelona being one of the most paid players in soccer history. All that change when they could

afford him, and other teams were not going to pay that much for him even though he is the best.

His salary went down by a lot from 70 million to 40 million in annual net salary. This is a pretty

big difference, but he is getting 40 million for the 2-year contract which is a bit different. He

went from being the top-played player to a normal player which is going to be hard because he is

also a normal human player that has to top-played pay things as we do. Messi might be every big

in a soccer league but if he goes anywhere else, he is not going to get paid the same. This means

Messi is going to have to do a lot of changes for him to get back to the top of his life. 

This trade has impacted a lot of things around Messi which can be very hard for a person.

Even though it can be hard Messi is still said ‘I know how talented the players and staff are here.

I am determined to build, alongside them, something great for the club and the fans. I can’t wait

to set foot on the Parc des Princes pitch.’ This just goes to show how amazing Messi is in a very

hard scenario. This goes to show why Lion Messi is the king of the jungle. Thanks to the BBC

Instagram platform and other sources, I could know so much information about the famous life

of lion Messi. 
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Sources 

@BBC News. “One of the world’s best footballers, Lion Messi, has signed a two-year

contract with Paris St- Germain After leaving his lifelong club  Barcelona”.  Instagram, 10 Aug.

2021, https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaHsoGKyl5/?utm_medium=copy_link. 

Falk, Graham. “Lionel Messi: How Much Will Argentina Star Earn at PSG? What Is His Net Worth?”

Www.scotsman.com, 19 Aug. 2021, www.scotsman.com/sport/football/lionel-messi-psg-how-

much-will-messis-salary-be-at-paris-st-germain-how-much-will-he-earn-per-day-month-and-

year-what-is-the-net-worth-of-former-barcelona-player-3342560.

AZZONI, TALES. “After 17 Seasons, Post-Messi Era Begins in Spanish League.” AP NEWS, 10 Aug.

2021, https://apnews.com/article/soccer-sports-europe-la-liga-premier-league-

bbc2f2f0293735ba4b79647c884a0e63

Reuters. “Messi to Leave Barcelona due to ‘Financial Obstacles’ -Club Statement.” Reuters, 5 Aug.

2021, www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/lionel-messi-leave-fc-barcelona-club-says-2021-08-05/.