Nagelsmann is BY FAR the best managerial option available for Barcelona ahead of the likes of Flick, Tuchel and De Zerbi. We should be all over this before someone else swoops in but I’ve followed this club for long enough to have any hopes of us getting him…
🚨 Nagelsmann: “There’s good chance that I'll sign before the Euros if I have an offer that I'm happy with. But I don't have anything on the table as of now”.
“Nothing is concrete in terms of talks. It’s all open, focus on the Euros”.
🟡⚫️ “BVB? You should ask them, not me”.
People who didn’t witness this live will never realise how special this moment actually was. Making Boateng who was the consensus best CB itw at the time after his performance in the 2014 WC look like an absolute fool and then going on to chip Neuer….Iconic
Look at him celebrating with Braithwaite, Mingueza, Trincao, Puig, Lenglet, Dest and Firpo…. people who have basically had no career since….really puts into perspective how much he carried in his last season.
Throw a shirt like that to any other athlete on the planet and he’ll shove it right back in your face. Meanwhile Messi just picks up the shirt with a smile, signs it and hands it over Lmao
Cristiano has achieved so much in the sport and is one of the richest men on the planet , yet just seeing Messi’s name makes him lose his head and act like a manchild despite being 40. Makes me immensely happy
This goal is criminally underrated considering it is the Maradona vs England of the Champions league. Only Barca and Messi fans tend to hype it, the casuals still talk more about his Goal vs Bayern/Liverpool.
Easily the greatest goal in UCL history
🗣️ Fede Valverde: “I’d trade two Champions Leagues for a Copa América with Uruguay.
It’s harder for Uruguay to win a Copa América title than for Real Madrid to win a UCL title.”
Barcelona has the highest peak of any club in football history. Having the three best players in the world come out of your academy, Winning league titles and champions leagues while destroying every team on the planet. No one comes close
It's been 13 years since Leo Messi beat Barça teammates Andrés Iniesta and Xavi to win the Ballon d'Or.
𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 the only time the podium had three players from the same academy.
Barcelona heritage 🔴🔵
I am so happy that Messi didn’t come back.People would’ve said that Dembele was sold to generate funds for Leo, Fati’s development was sacrificed etc. At 36 he deserves to enjoy football away from pressure, would have been painted as the face of the Barca collapse if he came back
Unpopular Opinion but Despite winning the most major trophies in football history, Messi has underachieved in his career compared to the talent he possessed
I actually hope he gets over 100 international goals so that it provides context to CR’s fraudulent international career, in the sense that someone like Lukaku bagged a similar number of goals to him. One has always been a joke, meanwhile the other is lauded
Modric is hardly playing any minutes for Real but come the end of the szn we’ll see pictures of him holding the LaLiga trophy with captions like “Still bossing it at 38 🪄” as if he was one of the key men for Madrid to win the title Lol.
⚪��🇭🇷 Why zero minutes and not even warm up for Luka Modrić today?
Ancelotti: “I don't want Modrić to warm-up if I'm not sure that he will play. I respect him too much to do that”.
The Lewa robbed narrative was so stupid. Messi all timer Copa compared to Lewa who was grouped in the euros,second in the golden boot race to him while also creating the most bcc in Europe,both out in ucl round of 16. People mix up Lewa not winning in 19/20 with the 20/21 award
No one in history has been good enough to even lace his boots, Maradona is the only one who is comparable but his ball striking ability is galaxies behind Messi. He’s a glitch in the matrix, a complete one-off.
Was rewatching and it hit me that he will probably be the last ballon d’or winner to have overall 90 min performances rather than just a few actions which define a game like most others🕊
Suarez 13/14 is the best I’ve ever seen anyone play in the Premier League. 31 Npg and 12 assists despite missing games due to his ban, add to it the fact that he won 12 pens for Gerrard and created 22 big chances. Deserved a league title
Barca scored 96 goals in the league + UCL when Messi was on the pitch in the 2018/19 season, Messi contributed to 65 of those 96 goals.
That's a mind-boggling 67.71% goal contribution….
The fact that if the margins didn’t go in his favour in 2019 and 2021, he would be tied with Ronaldo on 5 ballon d’ors is embarrassing. In a fair world he wins 13 of them i.e every one from 2009 until 2021.
Best UCL performances by stage:
Best Group stage performance- Messi vs Tottenham Hotspur
Best Round of 16 performance- Messi vs Chelsea
Best QF performance- Messi vs Arsenal
Best SF performance- Messi vs Bayern Munich
Best Final performance- Messi vs Man United
On this day 14 years ago, Lionel Messi faced Arsenal in the Quarter Finals of the Champions League.
He destroyed the London club and send them home with 4 goals behind his name.
Not to forget that Messi had just beaten Neuer on his near post from outside the box to break the game open when Barca were struggling to create for 70 minutes
Messi at just 19 was making a mockery out of all time greats like Cannavaro,Roberto Carlos,Nesta, Evra and Ashley Cole Lol. Once in a Millennium talent
A reminder that Argentina from 2011-2016 did not lose a single game in regulation time in 4 major tournaments and went to three finals, yet had nothing to show for it. This would break most humans but Messi kept fighting for his dream despite all the abuse and never gave up. Hero
Messi not coming back here was for the best. People would’ve said that Dembele was sold to generate funds for Leo, Fati’s development was sacrificed,etc. He would’ve been blamed for pretty much all our shortcomings as a side, at 36 he deserves to enjoy football away from pressure
🗣️ - Lionel Messi: "My first option was to return to Barcelona, but it was not possible. I tried to come back and it didn’t happen. It is also true that afterwards, I was thinking a lot about going to the Saudi league. It was either Saudi Arabia or MLS, and I found both options
I have a theory. Messi's actually not that insane at dribbling. I just think opposition players tend to show less aggressiveness towards him in duels just based off familiarity. 10 years in Spain and not one clamp sesh. He goes to France and gets eaten alive week after week.
Disrespected?😂 Cristiano’s probably the most overrated athlete in history, who has used social media and various marketing gimmicks to create a cult of idiots
Messi produced the greatest world cup campaign since 1986, no need to run this gimmick of trying to downplay his teammates to glorify him. I will forever be grateful to the entire squad who made my hero’s dreams come true
@nachiniesta
Pique was the best defender itw that szn but boateng had the high rep in the eyes of the casuals. Was seen as a vvdesque defender back then in terms being a pure athlete
Messi vs Colombia 2016.
Before the game Argentina were 6th in the Qualifiers and their World Cup Qualification was in massive jeopardy, overall one of My fav Messi performances
Iniesta was bossing Champions league finals at the age of 21 while Zidane was struggling at Bordeaux and Modric was languishing at Dinamo Zagreb. Absolute Levels
This narrative that Lewa was somehow robbed in 2021 is so jarring. Messi from January to July is probably his best run of form since 18/19, was poor for the next few months but still he was only 6 G/A behind Lewa (62) when the voting ended in October.
Messi’s BdOr argument this year is so straightforward and barely arguable.
The criticism of it is based on 2021.
Like if Juve won the Scudetto in 2007 😪
3 CL wins as the main man doesn’t do him justice, should have won 7 or a minimum of 5. Two more under pep, one more under with MSN in 15/16 and 18/19 ofc…
Some of it is down to his own performances in games whereas some of it is because of Barcelona’s extremely poor recruitment over the last decade and half
Messi 10/11 is the best UCL campaign of all time based on performances.Greatest final performance ever and also scored the best goal in UCL history in the Semis vs RMA. No one says Fontaine 13g and Muller 10g > Maradona 5g WC but the same metrics aren’t used to judge the UCL lol
Messi robbed shouts for 2010 will never make sense to me. This is the stuff he was doing that year all in the space of just one month, probably the best anyone has played since Maradona in 86
Rodri on not being nominated in the Top 3 in Ballon d'or & The Best:
🚨🎙️| Rodri: "I am not surprised.. This is normal. I understand very well how things work in these individual awards. They are based on marketing, money and advertising."
"There have been midfielders before
“Forced to pedal the narrative” when these dudes literally ran their socks off for Messi in The World Cup and Copa America and have been winning tournaments through the sheer power of friendship😂😂
One more Copa America and possibly 2/3 more league titles with Barca. Winning the league title with Messi should be a given imo, we were robbed in 13/14 and 16/17 and bottled the title in 20/21
This narrative again…People saying Neymar was better than Messi internationally pre 2021 was one of the dumbest things ever because Messi literally led Argentina to a World Cup final and 3 Copa finals while being their best player while Neymar did jackshit lmao
Iniesta dropped 4 UCL final clinics in 06 09 11 15 meanwhile KDB bottled both his final appearances with city and left the field in tears, Of course he hates him that ginger bum
Read years ago that Zidane was one of the only players Messi asked to borrow a shirt from, makes sense why he is giggling like a child in this interview. These two encapsulate Futbol heritage/the beautiful game
2011 being the ring with goat on it was perfect symbolism. Highest level he ever reached reached in his career while also producing the greatest UCL campaign in history. Remember thinking after the solo goal vs Madrid that “Yeah, this guy is the greatest ever”