Also, Barca has it's own identity as a club. Barca isn't Messi. You don't have to be a Messiboi to be a future Barca player lol. Similarly, nothing wrong with Real Madrid youth players idolizing Messi either.
Again you are not a Barcelona fan and probably you don't have the games to understand what is Barcelona about or Real or La Liga or who is Messi.
When I told you EPL is a league of peasants you lost it, but in fact that is a mentality fit for a league full of peasants.
That's why your biggest stars are some average bums like Kane or Salah (I really love Salah, but him being GOAT of EPL is hilarious, is like Arda was the GOAT of La Liga).
There wasn't any huge player there, except Best who was a native. That league is worse than the "farmers league" as they at least have talents.
In contrast to Boring EPL, this clubs were built on football excellence and hype around that. In the case of Real was a state investment to outdone Bilbao and Barcelona, but the point stands.
What Perez wants, and Ronaldinho and Messi made him fail, was to outshine Barcelona and rebrand Real.
So hyping Cr7 in a Barcelona shirt is working for Perez and his plan of rebranding the fascist club as the "biggest club, that had the biggest players".
Those Simonses had Romario if they wanted narcisists as their model.
Less diving, more dribling, WC winner, more flashy.