It has been four months now since Lionel Messi ended his 21-year-long association with FC Barcelona and moved to France to start a new phase of his career with Ligue 1 giants PSG.

While the club did sign players like Memphis Depay and Sergio Aguero in the summer to bolster their attack, it was always going to be difficult for the club to fill the void.

Expectedly, Barcelona have struggled in La Liga this season and are currently in the seventh position on the league table with 23 points from 15 matches, 16 points less than league leaders and rivals Real Madrid.

But the biggest setback the club has faced so far in the season is their elimination from the group stages of the Champions League and being relegated to the Europa League. For the first time in 21 years, Barcelona have bowed out of the Champions League from the group stages.

The last time the La Liga side played in the Europa League was in the 2003-04 season. Messi made his professional debut for the club during the 2004-05 season and while he was at the club, never did they fail to make it into the Champions League knockout stage.

Real Madrid too had a mini crisis when Cristiano Ronaldo parted ways with the club in 2018. They finished third in La Liga, were knocked out of the round of 16 stage in the Champions League by Ajax and reached the semifinal of the Copa del Rey where they lost to their eternal rivals, Barcelona.

But compared to Barcelona, their rivals coped with the departure of their superstar in a much better way. Unlike the Catalan club, Madrid reached the knock out stage of the Champions League topping their group and were in a better position on the league table after 15 matches.

Here is a comparison of how Real Madrid and Barcelona performed in the first season after Ronaldo and Messi's departure respectively.

Source: https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/ronaldo-less-real-madrid-performance-messi-less-barcelona/bltc74738e4b96f34d8

Na just space I come carry...

Summary is barca is missing Messi while Real Madrid is real madrid either with Ronaldo or without Ronaldo

I think Real Madrid are still making things real compared to Barcelona.

Barcelona are out of UCL group stage, decades record

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Op obembet u too like violence

Real Madrid simply had the confidence to tell Ronaldo to go to hell rather than pay him whatever he wanted while Barcelona bent over backwards just to keep paying Messi whatever he wanted which amounted to over €105,000,000 a year. paying him such an amount means they need to keep building the team around him which means only players that can play with Messi and make him better are bought and kept. anyone who doesn't fit this profile either gets sold or ostracised. Over the last 3-4 years Messi has been steadily declining and any bad game of Messi turns to a bad game for Barcelona which is why Roma, Liverpool, Bayern walloped them badly 3-0, 4-0 and 8-2 respectively. Then the unthinkable happened. Messi's contract ended and he moved. since all Barcelona have done is build the team around Messi and now he's gone those players are finding it very hard to adjust to life without Messi. also selling griezmann hasn't helped matters cuz it's even now that he should start shining but he got moved back to atletico instead.
of course real Madrid also struggled a bit after Ronaldo finishing third in the league and getting dumped out by Ajax in ro16 but it's only been getting better from there. winning laliga the next season, losing the league by 2 points the following season and now are looking like they'd win the league again. Mbappe is coming and can only make the team better

Barcelona simply made Messi look bigger than their club and that's where their problems started while Perez had always made it clear to Ronaldo that he's barely a speck of dust compared to behemoth real Madrid and Perez has done the same to Ramos while Barcelona keep paying Pique and Umtiti huge wages

Real Madrid doing well... Barcelona doing shit obviously

Mean while Chelsea has written to UEFA to see if they can still change the UCL Draw Dem de fear Lille

I have nothing to say here.

Maximum respect to Ronaldinho Gaucho, the greatest player ever to play the game of football.

OP is a Ronaldo ass-licker, He/she is trying to create more violence after the Balon D'or saga.

We tell Barca fans say dem go b crystal palace 2.0 when messi leaves but dem no gree

Barcelona finished 3rd last year with messi. Didn't go anyway in ucl so what are you saying. It's not like they had a good team with messi there in the first place

It is hard to compare both scenerios.

Ronaldo left Madrid at a time where there was no pandemic and also Madrid got 105 million to rebuild but Barcelona lost Messi at a precarious time with dwindling economy and got nothing to rebuild from so Yu see the factors are quite different.

But in the end both teams would have come to terms with the fact that both players would not play for ever and should have come up with a contingency plan way before then

We are here again

Messi is the goat... Messi got a whole president of a club replaced... D other small goat went to Italy and spoilt juventus title run
Only Messi 30 goals & 20 assists per season almost 60 goal contribution and u say Barça won't miss him... Listen... Messi is Barça

Things are changing in football and new stars are about to be born, in the case of barca I hope it doesn't be a case of Manchester united. With time barca will come up with a great team, it happens all the time in soccer. Remember the Bolton wanderers?

Them try.

Real Madrid is still trying to keep the pace unlike Barcelona wey dey dangle from Loss to Draw back to back

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This is not rocket science, finding a replacement for a player like Messi will always be harder than Ronaldo[respectfully].

Get a scorer like Haaland, Lewandowski or prime Suarez, you'd have replaced a Ronaldo by 80%. But replacing Messi might not be that easy.

You'd need a PRIME Hazard, with a clinical touch of PRIME Falcao and a great assister like PRIME Ozil.

Now the question is where do you wanna see one player with these qualities?

Note the emphasis on the “Prime“. Thanks.

Please what is the purpose of this thread, You want Ronaldo and Messi fans to start bashing one another abi

You can't compare Real Madrid to Barcelona

NewsAgent101:
Op obembet u too like violence

How? Please I don't like wahala o

Abeg o before Numerouno94 ThierryJay paulolee and OJEEMAH will start talk story here

Truth

ObaKlaz:
One is a team player, the very nucleus of his team. He's irreplaceable!

The other is spoonfed the sweat of everyone else in the team just so he can look good and stay happy. Unlike the first guy, this other guy gets carried by his team, then he takes the glory.
He got booted out & his ex team is doing awesome. His ex team mates that have worked so hard over the years to make him look good are balling now, as they don't have an overrated parasite on them anymore.

I bet this OP doesn't get that his post is even trolling his Portuguese gay lover.

No penalty, no party.
No tap-in, no orgasm.
No Luxembourg, no glory.

Siiii !!

Factos!

Ggg

This thread is an irony but the op no wise

Following

Football arguments eh.

Today Messi will win

Tomorrow, Ronaldo will win the same argument.

Una no De tire?

KingOroro1:
Ronaldo left Madrid with 100millions to try and invest and they look back on track. But the short goblin milked barcelona dry, they could not even sign a player.












Ororo for a reason

Messy ran away after milking Barcelona dry, he just shed crocodile tears