BarrileteCosmico wrote: Sport claims that today is Eric Lamela's birthday. Lio remembered this during the international break and gifted him the boots he scored a hattrick on after the match as an early gift.

Captain Messi

dat heart

Messi Higuain Aguero Di Maria golden age they all seem to be great friends too

Messi leading Lamela, Higuain, Kun, Di maria, Lavezzigwe, Garay, Pastore, Mascherano, Banega, Biglia and Gagod to WC 2014

People are saying you can not develop your captain skills

Anyone have the stats on all time top record goalscorers for 1 season?
I heard it was Dixie Dean with 60+? I know someone posted them on these forums a while back but I can't find it.

Guys, check out this article on Messi:

http://tenmillionslaves.com/lionel-messi-the-greatest-ever/

The global press pays homage to Leo Messi:

EUROPE

L’Equipe: ‘¡Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi!’ and a photo of the Argentine’s five goals were on the cover of the French daily

Gazzetta dello Sport: ‘Barça Show, Manita [Little hand] for Messi’

Corriere dello Sport: ‘Messi, five legendary goals’

Bild: ‘The God of football: Messi’ said the German daily, “his five goals humiliated Leverkusen, a mere sparring for Barça. Leo is a joy for any football fan.”

Kicker: ‘Record failure, Messi destroys Bayer’ and ‘Messi, the Kaiser of the Champions League’ said the German daily. Leo is “simply unique and extraordinary”

Daily Mirror: ‘Five stars, from another planet’

The Telegraph: ‘Messi makes history in the Champions League’

ARGENTINA

Olé: ‘Picasso,’ “Leo scores five goals (!) against the German runner-up (...) for two of his goals he chipped the keeper, he keeps on breaking records.”

Muy Buenos Aires: ‘More than Diego’

BRAZIL

Folha de Sao Paulo: ‘Messi 5 x Neymar 3’

MEXICO

Récord: ‘Messi is turning into a Semidio5 [Semigod]’ - “Leo keeps on demonstrating that he’s the best in the world. We’re running out of adjectives to describe his performances.”

Eco: ‘Unique’ plus a large photo of the Argentine led on the cover of the news source. “If there were any doubts about who he is, right now, the best player in the world, Messi scored five goals against Leverkusen yesterday.”

COLOMBIA

El Universal: ‘Give me 5 Messi’ plus a photo of Leo and Piqué led the South American daily. “Crushing record for the Argentine.”

HONDURAS

Diez: ‘Messi’s fifth symphony’

EL SALVADOR

El Gráfico: ‘Godly hand’ said the Central American daily. “He scored all types of goals to make history.”

PERU

El Líbero: ‘He’s from another planet.’ “Messi confirmed that he’s from another galaxy and he scored five, yes, five ‘pepaza’ that took Barça to the quarter-finals.”

SPAIN

Sport: ‘The little hand of God,’ plus a photo of the Argentinian after the 7-1 rout.

Mundo Deportivo: ‘The hand of God’

El 9Esportiu: ‘Alien’

MARCA: ‘The little hand of God.’ Leo Messi “is the first player to score five goals in one Champions League game.”

Love these sensational headlines and phrases, never get tired reading them, if its for Messi

I had said at the beginning of the season that if we win La Liga and CL I would consider Messi the best ever ahead of Cruyff.I still stand by that.
If we win CL,I would place him level with Cruyff.
Right now I would argue that he is more lethal than Cruyff ever was.Messi is the most lethal player i have ever seen.
But I still rate Cruyff a bit higher because he was smarter than Messi is and knew exactly how to play in any particular game.
Messi doesnt to the same extent.

Alex did you manage to watch Cruyff play regularly?
I mean besides tapes and internet videos?
How old are you?

No I didnt watch him live.
But I have watched tons of his games.World Cup,EC games,some of his games with Barca.Plus all that I have read about him.

Cool. You had to be at a considerable age to have been actively watching him.
I barely managed to watch Van Basten. Wish I had seen Cruyff. His videos are really great to watch

Alex Ferguson (coach Manchester United): "Maradona or Messi? Messi."

50 goals now and records that he can break this season:

- Barca all time top-scorer - if he scores 6 more goals
- Most goals scored in CL history - if he scores 1 more goal
- Most goals scored in Spanish football history in one season - if he scores 4 more goals
- Most goals scored in Europe football history in one season - if he scores 13 more goals

he is 3 goals away from equalling his total from last year eh? Incredible

<Hater time-out>

That video is ****** GOAT.

Editor who made that video is a professional video maker.

And Gomez almost equalled his record yesterday. but his goals sucked all tap-ins didnt deserve to be history maker

The xcx wrote:

billionmillion wrote:Editor who made that video is a professional video maker.

And Gomez almost equalled his record yesterday. but his goals sucked all tap-ins didnt deserve to be history maker

goals are meant to be scored not how theyve scored, a coach told me that when I was 8 yo I think.....
Knowing my buddy Francise Im not allowed to be OT so, realistically how many games does Messi have left to set the new world record of scoring the most goals in a season?

between 15 and 18 games

goals meant to be scored. but as you can see you dont get much attention or credit if you dont score them like messi

actually cr7 gets a lot of attention

I am surprised no one has yet mentioned the great goal he scored.
Has he made genius look so mundane that we dont even care to comment any more.A nutmeg and a beautiful chip,all in 2 touches.
A supreme goal and yet it has become so common that we are not enthusiastic about it any more.
Its as free mentioned.Romario scored maybe 1 chip goal a season.Messi scores tens so we dont even find it interesting now.
Just a freak of nature.

Exactly. Wasnt even mentioned because for him, its just another goal, the ease in which he does it.

But yeah, it deserves reliving.

A question dani.
Where do you see him play for us in 5 years time.
Still false 9 or do you see him play CM?

In 5 years he will be 29 right?

I think it depends on who we have in our squad, the coach, how he entire team is playing and so on.

If the midfield behind him is still the best in the world then I think he will still be where he is now.

That unless a new coach makes unforeseeable changes.

If the midfield behind him isnt the best, or not good enough, then I still dont see him in center midfield. Rather a true number 10 with a number 9 in front of him.

The Franchise wrote:In 5 years he will be 29 right?

I think it depends on who we have in our squad, the coach, how he entire team is playing and so on.

If the midfield behind him is still the best in the world then I think he will still be where he is now.

That unless a new coach makes unforeseeable changes.

If the midfield behind him isnt the best, or not good enough, then I still dont see him in center midfield. Rather a true number 10 with a number 9 in front of him.

Interesting.A 10 in a 4-2-3-1 perhaps or a 10 in a 3-4-3 with a real number 9 in front of him.
For arguments sake,wouldnt you agree that in such scenario his role would pretty much be the same as it is now.
Granted he would have a true number 9 in front of him whereas now there is none.But the role wouldnt be much different.
Even now he spends 80% of the time in between the lines.His goal numbers should suggest he isnt a number 10 but strictly going by how he plays for us,I would say he is.
I hear all the time the comparison with Cruyff and the false 9 role.
But Cruyff didnt spend as much time in between the lines as Messi does.
Nowhere close.I would say messi is more of a 10 than Cruyff was.
And if asked the question,Is messi a 10 or a false 9 I would say he is a 10.
And before anyone asks how can he be a 10 when he has no one in front of him,i realize the conundrum too!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, pretty much the same. Though a real 9 in front of him would probably mean a few more final passes (like there isnt enough now lol) and maybe less goalscoring chances.

But yeah, I am with you on your overall point. I dont think his game which change that much as he ages, only his mentality perhaps.