Lionel Messi -‘I feel no empathy for him’, says Simon Jordan,

Lionel Messi – Simon Jordan wasn’t buying Lionel Messi tears as he bid an emotional farewell to Barcelona on Sunday.

Messi will be ending his 21-year association with Barca after it was revealed they were unable to afford giving him a new contract.

The Argentine cut a very emotional figure during his farewell press conference, sobbing as he waved goodbye to the club he joined when he was just 13 years old.

Jordan can’t see why though…

Reacting to the sad scenes at the Nou Camp on Sunday, the outspoken talkSPORT pundit said: “I thought it was a pretty snappy press conference. Particularly because of the crocodile tears.”

Jordan added he feels no empathy for Messi, who’s set for a move to Paris Saint-Germain, where it’s claimed he will receive £25million a year.

The talkSPORT host added that Messi, who admitted he requested to leave Barca last summer, could have avoided this situation happening altogether if he really wanted to stay at the Camp Nou.

Instead, he insists the maestro’s exit is motivated by money and does not feel sorry for a footballer who is only moving on to pocket another ‘humongous bag of money’.

Jordan continued: “Messi could have signed a contract at Barcelona last year if he wanted to. Nothing’s changed at Barelona, if anything it’s got worse.

“I know he wanted to have his power battle with the incumbent president [Josep Maria Bartomeu]. For Messi to be on television crying about this, talking about the challenges that face him with his humongous bag of money is for me beyond the pale.

“He could’ve done a deal last year but he didn’t want to, he wanted to play hide and seek with himself. He wanted to play power games with Barcelona.

“Barcelona have paid him more money than anyone else would have paid him.

“He may love being in Catalonia, he may have been there since he was 13 years of age but what’s helped that has also been the inordinate, extreme and obscene amounts of money they’ve been able to pay him.

“So when I sit there and watch this situation, I don’t feel any empathy for him. I don’t sit there and think it’s terrible for him to be travelling off to PSG where he gets paid an inordinate amount of money.

“He was responsible in part for why the situation has manifested itself. Messi would have known about the challenges that Barcelona had.”

Source – https://talksport.com/