{"id":515,"date":"2021-08-10T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2021-08-10T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:42:20","slug":"i-feel-no-empathy-for-lionel-messi-he-couldve-done-a-deal-last-year-but-didnt-tv-pundit-simon-jordan-accuses-barcelona-icon-of-shedding-crocodile-tears-during-pres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/i-feel-no-empathy-for-lionel-messi-he-couldve-done-a-deal-last-year-but-didnt-tv-pundit-simon-jordan-accuses-barcelona-icon-of-shedding-crocodile-tears-during-pres\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel no empathy for Lionel Messi, he could\u2019ve done a deal last year but didn&#8217;t &#8216;- TV pundit, Simon Jordan accuses Barcelona icon of shedding \u2018crocodile tears&#8217; during press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-516 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lionel-Messi-666.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi\" width=\"580\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lionel-Messi-666.jpg 580w, https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lionel-Messi-666-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lionel-Messi-666-502x420.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lionel Messi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Television host, business man and pundit, Simon Jordan, has\u00a0 accused Lionel Messi of shedding &#8216;crocodile&#8217; tears as he bid an emotional farewell to Barcelona on Sunday, August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has ended his 21-year association with Barca after it was revealed they were unable to afford giving him a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine captain was very emotional during his farewell press conference, sobbing as he waved goodbye to the club he joined when he was just 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan says he can\u2019t see why Messi cried as he will be making a monstrous salary at PSG, and if he wanted to stay at the club he would not have submitted a transfer request last season.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the <a href=\"https:\/\/zakabet.com\/blog\/saleh-blasts-lionel-messi\/\">Messi&#8217;s emotional<\/a> scenes at the Nou Camp on Sunday, the outspoken talkSPORT pundit said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a pretty snappy press conference. Particularly because of the crocodile tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Messi will receive \u00a325million a year at PSG if the deal goes through.<\/h5>\n<p>According to Jordan, Messi&#8217;s exit is motivated by money and he does not feel sorry for a footballer who is only moving on to pocket another \u2018humongous bag of money\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan continued: \u201cMessi could have signed a contract at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/\">Barcelona<\/a> last year if he wanted to. Nothing\u2019s changed at Barelona, if anything it\u2019s got worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could\u2019ve done a deal last year but he didn\u2019t want to, he wanted to play hide and seek with himself. He wanted to play power games with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarcelona have paid him more money than anyone else would have paid him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may love being in Catalonia, he may have been there since he was 13 years of age but what\u2019s helped that has also been the inordinate, extreme and obscene amounts of money they\u2019ve been able to pay him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when I sit there and watch this situation, I don\u2019t feel any empathy for him. I don\u2019t sit there and think it\u2019s terrible for him to be travelling off to PSG where he gets paid an inordinate amount of money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was responsible in part for why the situation has manifested itself. 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