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He'll benefit from the time off with the injury, plus the break now. Hopefully he can stay injury free till the end of the season.

Tata was really annoyed with him when he messed the chance up at the end. Final product needs to improve if he wants to take over from Alves.

Barca are top of the league after winning 4 of the last 5 titles. If Messi stays fit in the new year it'll be 5 out of 6.

Always said he'd be perfect for Barca in a front three with Messi and someone else. That was before Neymar came in. He's a lot better than Neymar now (though Neymar is a lot younger with a high potential) and a player we can't afford to let go to Real Madrid. Not saying Barca have to sign him...

Barca's next centre half?

Ronaldo was also very raw at 19. The key with Deulo is his application and Barca making sure he has the right coaching and career development path. We need to be looking at getting at least one first teamer out of him and Adama.

Is that the 50s when Di Stefano played for Spain?

His advisers/agents were only interested in making money out of him. He had to play every single Brazil game as well (including loads of pointless friendlies) because Nike called for it. He was playing non-stop football and the injury problems became inevitable.

The midfield is very slow nowadays. Xavi's nearly 34 and Iniesta nearly 30 and they've played so many games for club and country. Against top opposition we can be cut open too easily now on the break and too slow to break down teams.

I bet he still goes off with Argentina then and plays for them. At least they don't need results.

He was saving it for the run-in last season but got injured against PSG. Look at the Milan return game. He scored in 20 league games in a row until he got injured. Bayern wouldn't have destroyed Barca like that if Messi was fit.

He scored three good goals, was unlucky not to score a 4th with his knee and a few times he was there to be set-up but for some bad decision making, which will always frustrate a goalscorer. We have become Messi dependant when he's on the pitch but that's because he'll always win you games. Give...

It's been coming. He's played non-stop football for 2 years now. With the Olympics, Confederations Cup and Euros on top of the club season. He probably needs the break.

He's usually a slow burner the game after international week.

Messi's scored in pretty much every league game he's played in so far in 2013 (and he's only missed a few) and single handedly got Barca into the semis of the CL. Ronaldo's done nothing of note and the team of the year (Bayern) had no real standout player because it was all teamwork. The star...

Barca have been terrible in the transfer market for years now. The club gets by on the world-class players produced at La Masia.

Busquets should have rested over the summer rather than going off to the Confederations Cup. He had injury problems at the end of the season. Messi could have done with a rest as well but still played quite a bit of football in June.

Overplayed. Euro 2012, Olympics, full season at Barca, Confederations Cup, then flown around the world in pre-season, Ecuador friendly.

He did score the goal that won the Milan tie. That was worth a good few million.

So Barca have had to buy him back just to loan him out? What a nonsense transfer deal this has been.