Lionel Messi will spend Sunday hundreds of miles away from the Champions League final in Lisbon, wondering how his Barcelona team sank so deep. The player leading PSG into its first Champions League final, Neymar, is the one Barcelona wishes it hadn’t sold. The worst of it came in the summer of 2017, when one call in Catalonia touched off a chain of events across Europe that lead directly to this year’s Champions League final. The coincidence means that this Champions League final features two clubs who happen to have shops in the duty-free area of Doha’s international airport. “But we have to focus on ourselves and not lose our minds thinking about the transfer market.”Share Your Thoughts What is your prediction for the Champions League final?

Source: Wall Street Journal August 21, 2020 09:56 UTC