The recent uefa champions league semi-final has proved that without lionel messi,barcelona is an average. The presence of half-fit messi in the first leg could not help the catalonians while his absence was a night mare in the second leg. We can as well look back to the quater final second leg against psg of france where barca are on the verge of elimination before messi "messaiahd" them. This has acted as a shut-up to those who say that messi depend on barcelona(iniesta,xavi,busqet,fabregas) to perform. We can now see that messi is the heart of barcelona. He depends not on barca to perform instead barca depend on him to perform.