Lionel Messi playing in the Chancellor League could be just a few weeks by. Cognition.

Just about every football game fan in the global had fictitious that Messi was going to see out his club career at Barcelona until very recently or withdraw with a spell at Newell's Old Boys at the to the highest degree.

However, the situation at Camp Nou has become so unbearable for the 33-year-used that the chances of a fairytale goodbye at Barcelona seem to be dead and belowground.

Man Metropolis in for Messi

Messi's father and broker, Jorge, has flown to Barcelona on Wednesday for talks with nightclub president Josep Maria Bartomeu that will presumptive reiterate the player's desire to move elsewhere.

And all roads seem to lead to Manchester City with the Daily Record reporting on Tuesday night that Messi had agreed to financial terms that would continue his status equally the world's highest-paid player.

Equally a upshot, the classical pub conversation of how Messi would perform in the Premier League has gone from a complete hypothetical to something possibly being discussed in the Urban center boardroom.

How would Messi perform in England?

One lateral of the arguin, of which I'm avowedly a component, believes that Messi's qualities are such that any send away in form upon afoot from La Liga to the Premier Conference would cost minimal.

On the flip side, even so, some supporters conceive that the physical nature of English football game wish really takes its toll on the Argentine and that helium'll contend to create the stats he reaches in Spain.

And that's an opinion shared aside Reading fan David, who caused a stir connected gregarious media this calendar week when he phoned up talkSPORT to sacrifice a scathing review of Messi's chances connected live radio receiver.

'Wouldn't last Little Phoeb minutes'

"Can I just say, Messi was the best footballer in the world, but atomic number 2 International Relations and Security Network't now," the company opined. "If you look, the last two big games - trailer truck-final against Liverpool utmost year, Bayern Munich this year - he's gone missing.

"He wouldn't dying five transactions in the Premier League with the focus-halves he'd be sprouted against. Because if I was a centre-half, the first affair I would do is go right through him. First pentad minutes.

"Honestly, if helium does information technology any unusual state, he'd be noted as the best footballer in the world. That's wherefore Ronaldo is the good footballer in the world. He's done it in the Premier League, Spain and Italy."

GIVEMESPORT's Kobe Tong says

Oooooooooo... I bet Messi is frightened to death of Ben Mee and Liam Cooper.

Okay, jokes aside, I don't question for a second that nonpareil mid-postpone or relegating-fighting club will obtain a way to stop Messi at some point future mollify if he does indeed move to the Etihad Stadium.

Look, it happens in La Liga too, symmetric the scoop players in history can't set the world alight all single game... but do I call up He'll be ruined in England within Little Phoeb transactions? Do I heck.

There are just too many examples of Messi rallying against the odds in games against teams hard to sasha him upwardly and, for that weigh, against English sides in the Champions League.

Yes, I set think that the Premier Conference will be tougher along him and I do think that his stats will pass up as he adapts, but I'm forecasting it to cost a minor falter as opposed to a full-dyspneal founder.

Besides, the grass looks a lot greener in England for Messi right now and that rump only be a good matter for a GOAT.

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