I think Messi in Paris can be seen in a different light now we can see Madrid’s struggles with Mbappe and how it effects those around him. He got 77 goals and assists in 75 matches in an attack which should have been completely dysfunctional.
MLS is easy for him, even when he can’t run, and he won a World Cup too! These isn’t a lot more you can ask of someone who was, essentially, a one club man.
I think his time in the MLS is highlighting just how easy he finds the game. The incredible for one player, is a normal action for him, and I think that will be his legacy, how easy he made consistent brilliance look.
So easy, that it’s under appreciated.
He is the best playmaker of all time…who also happens to have nearly 900 goals. It’s honestly insane.
If we are talking about the subject seriously, the main thing with Messi at that point with PSG, it's that he felt betrayed by Laporta and clearly surprised.
I'm not entering the rabbit hole of how he handle himself in Barca, well or bad, yet of the particular circumnstances at that stage.
Prior to his exit, he even asked to let them go in his war (among other players) against the Barca Management...there he was angry, he even call for an interview, he was prepared (already in talks with Clubs he really wanted), willing to go.
When Laporta arrived and clearly used him in his Campaign (not judging if good or bad for Barca), promising that everything was going to be fine yet being somehow "fired" at the last minute, he felt it like a betray. He was pretty fvcked up, no pre season, had to move asap all his family, not really his best choice of destination and that was showed.
What I don't agree at all with him, it's in his apporach.
He should arrived to PSG on a Mission, in the same manner of a Leader like in barca or Argentina, like the way he looked ready prior when he asked for leaving.
He shouldn't let Ney keep the number 10, he should have put Mbappe on line with his spoiled attitude (for the benefit of Killian and the team) and not just be tidy, the the good Pro boy, while keeping his legs fresh for the WC.
He was a Pro, he wasn't a traitor like Ultras made out of be, he never reacted to all the shyte around and did his job.
Yet you'll see him fighting more even NOW, being more angry with this huge fvck up team in his retirement than in his PSG days.
Of course he still was Messi and till now Mbappe's biggest assist provider ever, his numbers even in CLs aren't bad at all, yet was the Barca 2018/19 on a Mission version? the one in the WC22? the one nowadays in Inter Miami that looks even funny being at times so comitted? Nope.
He was already more fit in his second campaging, playing really great specially the first stage of the season, yet a more vociferous, more Leader Messi was needed in that PSG that the one they got and even with silly Ultras and all, he should have go there put in line Ney and Killian, no matter if PSG in those days lacked really good coaches, that Verratti/Vitinha had so many up and lows and the team lacked a lot of balance; there was no angry Messi there on a Mission and that was what PSG needed.
