Simon Kuper
19 August 2021
The inside story of how Lionel Messi broke Barcelona, the world’s greatest football club
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The Argentine's departure from the Catalan club has been the saga of the summer. But as this exclusive extract from a new book by SIMON KUPER shows, the footballing and financial relationship had been dysfunctional for several seasons
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