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The two-time Copa Libertadores winner with Boca Juniors has claimed that the 32-year-old “walks more on the pitch now” than he wont to .
Despite this suggestion, Messi has still scored 23 goals in 30 appearances for the Catalans this season, contact another 16.
A former Argentine footballer says that the Barcelona striker "spoils" his team.
Former Argentina goalkeeper Hugo Gatti has claimed that Barcelona’s Lionel Messi isn't any more phenomenal which he “spoils” his team thanks to the slow tempo he plays at.
The two-time Copa Libertadores winner with Boca Juniors has claimed that the 32-year-old “walks more on the pitch now” than he wont to .
Despite this suggestion, Messi has still scored 23 goals in 30 appearances for the Catalans this season, contact another 16.
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That has not spared him from Gatti, though.
“I don't care if people criticise me in Argentina,” he told Chiringuito.
“I'm very Argentinian and Messi may be a phenomenon, but he is not a phenomenon now"
“They treat him wrong because they big him up and large him up and treat him wrong. He gets wont to it and walks more on the pitch. He has got to be better.
“Cristiano [Ronaldo] and him are the 2 best.
“Messi has got to be better, he's got wont to playing at a weary rhythm, walking and people that know football think an equivalent . Take off, kid. you've got to play well.
“When there is a player like Messi, love it was with Maradona and Pele, and his teammates always give the ball to him to win the sport .
“They spoil the team and that they don't put everything they need into it.
“The team get wont to giving him the ball and not anyone else.”
Messi is considered one among the outstanding players of all-time, having won the Ballon d’Or on six different occasions, including the 2019 award.
Barcelona star holds a raft of records, having netted more often than another other player in Barcelona Shirt, with 437 league goals scored in 473 appearances.
Although Messi wasn't on target in last weekend’s Clasico against Real Madrid, a match his side lost 2-0, he had scored four against Eibar hebdomadally earlier to help his side to the highest of the table – an edge they subsequently lost at the Bernabeu.
On Saturday, they tackle Real Sociedad at Camp Nou, with a win putting them to the summit of the standings for a minimum of 24 hours as Madrid don't play Real Betis until Sunday.
