10 - Lionel Messi - v3

[Ustari]

calm your tits

 

[KyletheMuslim]

As far as i am aware Pep doesnt have an autobiography.

If you are referring to the Balague book then you are being very selective in what you are referring to as there are many examples in that book where Messi and Peps relationship was strained - usually from Messi's behaviour.

So to suggest Messi never had a cross word with Pep as he was a 'sage' is totally wrong.

I didn't say he never had a cross word with pep, but he certainly viewed him as a real authority because of his understanding of the game. Pep got him to stop eating his favorite food, how many coaches command that sort of respect ?

 

[linetty]

Heard this guy is good, check him out!

 

[Egert]

New boots are pretty much official now I think

He was training today with prototypes of these babies.

 

[linetty]

Nice, I liked it when he's been wearing white boots for some time in 2014.

 

[Alik]

Nice boots!

 

[Kerrybai]

Please shift the anger to the mathieu thread, I'm voicing my anger there but people are defending him, please back him up.
Also on Messi, let's be realistic Messi has an ego, a pretty big one at that, no where as huge as Ronaldo's but from what I've read from Pep Guardiola's autobiography Messi is the type of player to do these kinds of things when the coach is not on the same footballing level as him. For Messi Guardiola was a footballing sage, who could only teach him wisdom, whereas enrique is a sort of......well not a sage. Messi probably feels like he can learn nothing from enrique, which is probably true.

Having a big ego is a positive thing, it drives top athletes to perform at their best.

 

[dakt]

Heard this guy is good, check him out!

What a player. Messi isn't' Barca, but he's at least 50% of it. The control he has...damn.

 

[doublehh03]

When Messi is playing well, you're pretty much guaranteed a win.

 

[DinhoR10]

When Messi is playing well, you're pretty much guaranteed a win.

It sounds like hyperbole but I honestly don't remember a game with 100% messi that we didn't win or shouldn't have won.

 

[KingMessi]

Mino Raiola on Messi and Messi's agent [GDS]:

"Ibrahimovic deserves ten more Ballon d'Or's than Messi. Why? Because be flourishes in every team. Messi only at Barça."

"If he had been my client I would have made him change teams at least four times. Not for money, because he would have earned many chances at extensions but because he would have improved."


He's a rat.

 

[messi2140]

Mino Raiola on Messi and Messi's agent [GDS]:

"Ibrahimovic deserves ten more Ballon d'Or's than Messi. Why? Because be flourishes in every team. Messi only at Barça."

"If he had been my client I would have made him change teams at least four times. Not for money, because he would have earned many chances at extensions but because he would have improved."

 

[Alen]

He's not stupid at all, that's the type of agent he is. It's not by coincidence that Mendes is CR's manager, and Raiola is Ibra's. They are agents with big egos working for players with even bigger egos.

 

[linetty]

Most assists from through balls in Liga this season: Messi 4 - Rakitic 4 - Nolito (Celta) 2 - Borja (Cordoba) 2 [via @barca19stats]

Edit: Lel, barcastuff got it wrong. Rakitic is on 2.

 

[hardyboy]

Lotina (ex-coach Deportivo): "If there's a
Messi game on tv, I stay at home. If
Cristiano plays, I might go for a drink with
my pals" [ser]