5 challenges that might push Messi to return to Barcelona.. Get to know them
The future of the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, is still vague, whether by renewing his contract with the French club Paris Saint-Germain, or by leaving during the next summer transfer market, and returning to the Spanish club Barcelona, especially in light of the increasing volume of rumors, following the recent statements of each of the Catalan club’s vice president Rafa. Yusti, and technical director Xavi Hernandez.
And the Catalan newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” highlighted, on Saturday, the most important challenges that might push Messi to return to the ranks of the “Blaugrana” team next season, if the latter succeeded in persuading him to accept the financial offer submitted on the one hand, and on the other hand, enabling them to register him in the team’s list with The Spanish Football League “La Liga”, and not to violate the laws of financial fair play.
Messi left FC Barcelona in the summer of 2021, following achieving many records, most notably that he played the largest number of matches with the team (778 matches), and also became the most scored for the Catalan club (672 goals), and played matches in the league (520 matches), and scored. For goals in El Clasico (26 goals), in addition to being the player who scored the most goals in the league during one season (50 goals), and also the player who most won the Golden Ball award (7 golden balls), and other individual titles.
Breaking Giggs’ record
Leo Messi achieved 35 titles with FC Barcelona (10 Ligas, 8 times the Spanish Super Cup, 7 times the King’s Cup, 4 European Champions Leagues, 3 Club World Cups and 3 times the European Super Cup), before his departure to the ranks of the Parisian club, and in If the 35-year-old decides to return to the Spotify Camp Nou castle next season, he will seek to surpass former Manchester United legend, Ryan Giggs, who holds the record as the player with the most titles with the club himself, with 36 titles.
skip Xavi
Although Messi is considered the player with the most appearances for FC Barcelona with 778 matches, the coach of the “Blaugrana” team, Xavi Hernandez, played the largest number of matches with the club in the Champions League competition with 151 matches, and thus the “Bulga” will be on a date with the task of exceeding the number of The matches of his former colleague, knowing that he is 3 matches away from him.
Samitier transgression
He is the champion of the last World Cup with the “Tango” team, the scorer of the historic club Barcelona, and he is the team’s top scorer in the Spanish League and the “Championship” competition, but there is another number that is not registered in his name, and it is related to the owner of the largest number of goals in the King’s Cup, as he scored Messi scored 56 goals in this competition, 13 goals behind Josep Samitier, who scored 69 goals, including 64 with Barcelona and 5 goals with Real Madrid.
Elvish hunt
Messi is going to be crowned with his club, Paris Saint-Germain, in the French League title this season, and thus raised his tally to the 43rd title, knowing that he was crowned with 34 titles in the Barcelona shirt, and five other titles with the Argentine national team, and he still has little to exceed the number of his former Brazilian colleague, Dani Alves, Who managed to win 45 titles during his football career.
Messi and the heroes
The last challenge awaiting Messi if he decides to return to the “Blaugrana” team is to be the most crowned player in the European Champions League with Barcelona, knowing that he won this title 4 previous times, and his last title in this competition was eight years ago from now.