A Barcelona without Lionel Messi

The Argentinian, Lionel Andres Messi, one of the, if not the best players to grace a football pitch, plays for FC Barcelona of Spain. At the age of 31, and his birthday approaching fast, he is on the twilight years of his career.

Although he is in the twilight years of his career, there is absolutely no stopping him. This 2018/19 season, in 51 total appearances for Barcelona, he scored 50 goals and had 22 assists in all competitions, a phenomenal record and the highest in the top five leagues in Europe.

There is a downside to all this, though, because FC Barcelona depend a lot on Messi, which is never a good sign, football is a team game, and one player should not be doing big masses of work, even if he is the best in the world.

We may never know, but it is definitely possible that Messi may not perform very well or maybe even perform bad next season. At the age of 32, you never know. If that happens Barcelona could go into total turmoil, unless, of course, someone like Philippe Coutinho or Luis Suarez saves them, just like Karim Benzema did in the 2018/19 season for Real Madrid when Cristiano Ronaldo left for Juventus.

But here is where another problem arises, neither Coutinho nor Suarez looks like they can do well next season, Coutinho has performed very badly under Valverde after joining from Liverpool, and it doesn’t look like a miracle could happen next season.