Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi

[malvolio]

This is a never ending story, laporta will give the fault to Messi and Messi the fault to Laporta Its time to close this chapter.

Messi hasn't responded yet to Laporta. Either because he doesn't want to create controversy before the Ballon D'or or just thinks Laporta is not worth his time.

On the other hand Barca as a club are simping pretty hard for Messi. Laporta with his interviews, Barca social media with a Messi reference every other day, fans chanting Depay's name a la Messi, this thread gathering more replies than any other current Barca player or staff member etc

 

[vegitot]

Can see that Poch faces the same problem like Madrid's Galacticos 1.0. People just care about names, not actually system and formation.

 

[pregra]

Has nothing to do with any system. He overhits/underhits so many passes at the moment, either he don?t care or he has just lost the magic. Hopefully the first.

 

[KingLeo10]

It's Ligue 1...when will you guys understand he isn't interested in stat padding in the league.

When he stops scoring in CL and for Argentina, you can be concerned then.

 

[pregra]

Nah, something is not right. Even unbothered, Leo doesnt usually make so many mistakes.

 

[KingLeo10]

I mean, he is declining too...but I'm not going to write him off just yet.

 

[pregra]

If he keeps scoring in the CL, nobody will care. Lets wait and see.

 

[JamDav1982]

Messi is well aware of the records he will leave and comparisons with Ronaldo etc.

He is in no way costing or not caring about scoring in league.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Messi knows that ligue 1 isnt important but as ambitious as he is he still wants to win it. His gameplay is bad at the moment but it was the same last year, he exploded in second half of the season.

 

[JohnN]

He has been pretty good first half imo.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

All 474 La Liga goals

should be 475 and + 1 la liga title if var would have existed in 2014

 

[pregra]

He was poor for the first 20-25 mins, better after that. That curler would have been nice

 

[Rassvet]

It's Ligue 1...when will you guys understand he isn't interested in stat padding in the league.

When he stops scoring in CL and for Argentina, you can be concerned then.

I worry about performances, not just goals, He hasn't looked that good in CL even though he has 3 goals.

 

[Rassvet]

By contrast, his scoring for Argentina from open play has actually been kind of bad for a few years but his general play is usually class so I'm fine with it.

 

[eaman]

He is playing in an unimpressive team. A good midfield is so important and they don't have it. Man City would hammer this marseille team and if they only won by one they would still dominate the game