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Giving any money to a charity is a worthy attribute. But the total sum is very revelant when it's compared to your actual wealth.
Let's not put Messy on a pedestal, he has fleeced his employer for years, so much so he has made a large contribution
to Barcelona's current situation. And now they can't afford to pay him he's off to the next. Maybe  the blame is the owners fault, but morally within the game it's wrong IMO.
Just for us normal folk to grasp how much he has taken from the game. His tax dodging caught up with him a couple of years back.
His fine was £3 million (euro's) and his tax bill was £370 million (euro's)
Not really the act of an upstanding law abiding citizen.

I must say I agree with the sentiments of this post much more!
However I think it's football's fault in general, and Barcelona's fault here, that individuals are paid these obscene wages - you can't really blame the player for taking what's on offer! And it IS to his credit that he's done a lot of good with a chunk of his wages that he probably just couldn't spend!
But yes - crocodile tears then off to the next paymaster.....

Yep, I think this is a fair assessment from Drewks. I'm not by any means painting Messi as a total saint - I suspect like most people, he has his good and bad tendencies - and the crocodile tears did seem a bit much. But the economics of football aren't of his making, and far from "fleecing" Barcelona, he's given them the most successful fifteen-year spell in their entire history. It's easy to reach for the "greedy footballer" stereotype, but realistically, no one offered that kind of money for kicking a ball is going to say no. What matters to me is what they choose to do with it, and given the number of ex Premier League stars who've declared bankruptcy after "donating" their entire fortune to William Hill and PaddyPower, I've got a damn sight more respect for those who put some of it where it's needed.