Last week we opened a portal into a different dimension: one in which Lionel Messi plays form someone other than Barcelona.
His Barcelona contract expires in June of 2021 and, according to reports in Spain, he has broken off extension talks and is considering his future. Messi is apparently unhappy with the club's front office, the players recruited around him and the drip-drip-drip of leaks that depict him as some kind of behind-the-scenes power broker, influencing most of Barcelona's recent (and mostly poor) decisions. That is pretty much all we have right now. Messi's camp has not commented and Barcelona's only comment was president Jose Maria Bartomeu saying that the club had an obligation to renew his contract and that the player himself had said "many times" that he wants to retire at the Camp Nou.