It goes without saying that Barcelona are one of the most successful football clubs of all-time. Titles are won year after year as great players pull on the famous Catalonian blue and red.

All week, Sportsmail have been counting down the 50 best players ever to have played at the Nou Camp, and it is finally time to reveal the top 10.

There’s no Pep Guardiola, Carles Puyol or Neymar… but the below list surely includes some of the most talented men ever to play the beautiful game.

10 – PAULINO ALCANTARA

Born in the Philippines in 1896 but with a Spanish father, Paulino Alcantara moved to Barcelona when he was three years old and would grow up to be a Barca great, scoring 357 goals in 357 games.

Four years after his debut he returned to the Philippines to become a doctor but Barca lost the next two title races without him and begged him to come back. He sailed back to Europe (a journey lasting two months) and with in three days of his return scored a hat-trick against Sabadell.

Nicknamed ‘the net-buster’ he retired a year before the league was formed but did win five Spanish Cups before quitting age 30 to finally dedicate himself to medicine.

9 – PEPE SAMITIER

The third-highest goalscorer in Barca’s history with 326 goals, Pepe Samitier made his debut for Barcelona in 1919 aged 17 and played for the club for 13 seasons.

He won two leagues and was nicknamed ‘the Grasshopper’ and ‘the Magician’ – long in the leg but not short on spellbinding skill.

He also won silver with Spain in the 1920 Olympics, played a season for Real Madrid, and returned to Barca as coach, managing the club for three seasons winning another Liga title.

8 – JOHAN CRUYFF

For sheer impact on the club itself he would have to be No 1 but Cruyff the player was not quite the force of Cruyff the coach. He still left a huge mark on Barcelona, however, arriving in 1973 as the ban was lifted on Spanish clubs signing foreign players.

Legal wrangles meant he only debuted at the end of October with Barca one off the bottom. He lashed his first goal into the top corner in his first game against Granada and Barca didn’t lose again all season.

He had chosen Barca over Real Madrid despite the latter reaching an agreement with Ajax and he delivered Barca’s first league in 14 years at the end of that first campaign.

7 – DANI ALVES

He arrived in 2008 and for the next eight years he delivered a level of consistent excellence that helped Barcelona win three European Cups and dominate La Liga. He won 23 trophies at the club, including five leagues.

Of criticism over his defending he told Sportsmail in an interview last season: ‘Imagine what I would have achieved if I’d been any good!’

6 – GERARD PIQUE

Another player who may only be fully appreciated when he is a long gone and lesser mortal are trying to replace him.

Like Alves he arrived in 2008 and has won 23 trophies since. And if true greatness can be measured in part by a capacity to reinvent then Pique has that stamp – he was second in command to Puyol until 2010 but has grown into the defence’s leader since his pal’s retirement.

5 – ANDRES INIESTA

It’s four Champions League final wins now for Andres Iniesta. He came on at half time to change the game against Arsenal in Paris in 2006; his dramatic late winner at Stamford Bridge got Barca to the 2009 Rome final; he starred in the 2011 final at Wembley, and set up the first goal in Berlin in 2015.

One of Barca’s greatest … and he scored the most important goal in Spain’s history too.

4 – RONALDINHO

Mr Bojangles himself. Barcelona taxi-drivers still talk about the legendary nightlife Ronaldinho enjoyed during his five years but he played hard too putting a smile back on the face of a club in the doldrums when he turned up.

The league and Champions League double in 2006 was the highlight. He was so good they even applauded him in the Bernabeu.

3 – LADISLAO KUBALA

So many people wanted to see Ladislao Kubala play Barcelona in the 1950s that they had to build a new 93,000 capacity Nou Camp to replace their old 60,000 capacity Camp de les Corts.

He scored 194 goals and won four leagues as well as playing in the 1961 European Cup final Barca lost to Benfica.

Life before Barca had been fraught with danger. He escaped communist Hungary dressed as a Russian soldier and may have died in the 1949 air disaster that killed the great Torino side of the forties. He was supposed to be representing them in a friendly against Benfica in Portugal but pulled out for family reasons and it saved his life enabling to go on write his name in the history books of Barcelona and play 19 times for Spain despite having already represented Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

2 – XAVI HERNANDEZ

When he retired from Barcelona after 17 seasons in 2015 it was calculated that Xavi Hernandez had played 59,000 minutes for the club winning 25 trophies in the process. His record of 767 games may never be beaten.

He was the heartbeat of the team as they climbed to the summit of world football and, in the eyes of many supporters, he will never be replaced.

They console themselves with the conviction that he will return as coach some day.

1 – LIONEL MESSI

When Catalan agent Josep Maria Minguella brought a 13-year-old Argentine to Barcelona for a trial in 2000 he told the club’s then technical director Charly Rexach that he was bringing him ‘the next Maradona’.

There were quite a few ‘new Maradonas’ in circulation at the time so there was some skepticism. But of the first time he saw Messi play Rexach recalls: ‘After two minutes I knew.’

Sixteen years later and Messi is the greatest player in the club’s history. Years from now the club’s supporters will not need to reel off the trophies he won, or the number of goals he scored. It will be enough for them just to say: ‘I saw him play’.

More;http://newsherald.com.ng/2016/09/messi-ronaldinho-xavi-among-greatest-players-ever-no-1/

My fav is not here

Nawao , this can't be true because they said best ever and Pele is not in the list