F.C. Barcelona’s new Manager Ernesto Valverde is planning a shake-up in the club’s line-up come the next season according to reports reaching our News Desk. In a move that sounds quite ambitious, the Manager is planning to give the mercurial soccer star, Lionel Messi, a much deeper role in the mid-field department of the team.

This move is not unconnected with the diminishing performance of Andres Iniesta who is surely not getting younger. Even Sergio Busquets was not able to perform at his usual level last season thereby making the mid-field less reliable than usual.

Lionel Messi had to take on more responsibilities virtually in every area of the Barcelona team as he plugged holes in the mid-field and at the same time joined in the attack to eventually score an unbelievable 54 goals in all competitions despite the hindrance.

The success of such an experiment will definitely depend on whether F.C. Barcelona is able to bring back Gerard Deulofeu from F.C. Everton. The striker who graduated from the famed La Masia academy has now had two seasons at Everton apart from loan moves to Sevilla and at AC Milan, where he really impressed during the second half of the last season.

Lionel Messi to be pushed into new role at Barcelona by Everton flop

Apart from Deulofeu, Barca is also sweating on how to get another of the players sold in a crazy selling frenzy that saw the team losing some really good youngsters, Bellerin from F.C. Arsenal. This is one player who should have naturally replaced Dani Alves when he was allowed to move away from the Nou Camp but erroneous judgement on the part of those responsible for transfers at the club meant that both were unavailable for it, an error that was the most glaring last season as that position was the worst area of the Barcelona defence line.

It is further hoped that the club will be able to acquire the services of Verratti from PSG as a further solidifying force for the ageing mid-field department. The chances of getting his signature are however more difficult than that of Deulofeu as PSG is not ready to let their prized player off the hook so easily.

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just put him anywhere he will deliver & carry da team along unlike RONALDO who the formation shows that he is playing 4rm the left-hand wing meanwhile all through the match he will be the TOP9 just because of goals..
it is a shame that people even compare RONALDO to LIONEL.

Lionel Messi is surely is a superstar in a class of his own. That is why people say 'he is not from this planet". Kudos to this humble little giant.