Is it a coincidence that Mero has not been able to win the Champions League in recent years?
"I've been training these days to get to 100% form and this year's great challenge is coming, hopefully we can see each other again soon, thank you!"
On the afternoon of January 13, local time, Messi reported to the fans and fans who cared about him on his social media, thanked everyone for their concern for him, and also expressed his expectations for the next key events, but whether he can reach 100% as he said, the outside world has different views.
Not long ago, former Argentine national team coach Batista said in an interview, "At the level of the game, what we see now is not the best version of Messi. ”
Former Manchester United star Evra was even more blunt: "They [Paris Saint-Germain] recruited Messi, but Messi is not the one who can get them to win the Champions League." ”
Similar remarks are bound to attract opposition from Messi fans, but Evra is using personal experience to verify this statement.
"Winning the Champions League is about the mental state of the group and the team, and winning it is complicated. You know, I've lost four times in five finals. ”
Moving out of this reason, even the most die-hard Messi fans may have to agree. The current Paris Saint-Germain is indeed undercurrent, pochettino's tactical ability is not convincing to everyone, let alone his own deep scandal; Neymar has been having fun in Brazil and has only recently returned to the club; as for the most convincing Mbappe on the pitch, his contract with Paris Saint-Germain will expire this summer.
If such a team can go to the end, then Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and other tough competitors, then why bother?
A similar situation also happened on the other side of the once unique double pride.
Compared with Paris Saint-Germain can also rely on their own hard power, at least to ensure the absolute strong position of the domestic arena, C Ronaldo's Manchester United, not to mention the European war, whether the league level can get tickets to the Champions League next season, must be marked with a big question mark.
In an interview with the media, C Luo has mentioned the problem of the mentality of the team more than once, and he hopes that his teammates will make more efforts to defend the status of this golden signboard, but this kind of thing obviously cannot be changed overnight.
What's more, it is still under the helm of an interim manager.
As the strength of the absolute double pride enters the downward range, the attitude of public opinion to these two also shows a polarizing trend.
Fans who support their respective idols believe that Messi and C Ronaldo can still help their teams win heavy titles in theory, and the copa America championship and the current decline of the two former owners Barcelona and Juve can prove this; on the other hand, they believe that Messi and C Ronaldo have become the "cancer" of their respective teams, without them, the results of Paris and Manchester United can be better.
After all, Paris was only a little bit behind the Champions League final last season, while Manchester United were runners-up in the league last season.
Although both sides have their own logic and data to support, it seems to make sense, but it has to be said that the views of both sides have gone to extremes.
The strength of Messi and C Ronaldo is indeed much lower than before, but it is still very valuable.
Although they have entered the end of their careers, Messi can still win the championship in the extremely intense and fierce Copa America, and Cristiano Ronaldo can also score 29 goals in the most unfriendly Serie A environment for forwards and win the Serie A Golden Boot.
This shows that the tactics are properly matched, and they can still become an important role on the road to victory.
For Messi, he needs a teammate in front of him to open up space for him, and he needs eight teammates behind him to escort him, which is the reason why Messi performed well in the Copa America; for C Ronaldo, he needs a teammate next to him to share the pressure for him, and he needs eight teammates behind him to maintain the balance of attack and defense balance, which is the key basis for C Ronaldo to continue to shine at the end of his career.
But these things, none of these are there in their respective teams.
Mbappe is not Lautaro Martinez, the former is good at impact and cannot output confrontation like the latter.
Paris Saint-Germain is not Argentina, can not pile up an eight-man defensive line-up in the backcourt, Ashraf, Verratti, Paredes and other types, all biased to attack strong and weak, even if forced in the backcourt, the effect is not much better.
Cristiano Ronaldo has no stable partner at United, and even if Cavani can barely do it, he is a 34-year-old veteran.
Manchester United's midfield can not do a basic balance of attack and defense, Maguire, Varane, the theoretical combination of centre-backs, is more suitable for playing defensive counterattack tactics, but C Ronaldo can not be as frequent as young people, which will only open up the team's formation.
That's why they will lose 5-0 to Liverpool.
Therefore, the question is not whether it is a cancer or a drag on the team, but everyone has not found a suitable adaptation for each other.
With messi and C Ronaldo's past performance records, to any team, it will get the manager's tactical resource tilt, which is understandable, but can the team tilt the resources out? How many resources can be sloped out? Can the positive gains provided by the star cover the negative losses after the resource tilt is obtained? If you can't find the right strength for the resource tilt, is it to change coaches? Change teammates? Or a change of stars? Change teams?
This is the real contradiction of the problem.
Football itself is a team sport, and all problems must be looked at in the context of the team.
Teams that do not rely on top stars to win blockbuster titles are naturally well-deserved leaders. Under the premise of tilting resources, it is also the ability of these top stars to create a variety of scoring records.
Perhaps, as Evra said, Messi could not help Paris Saint-Germain win the Champions League, but maybe Messi can win the Champions League in the future, and Paris Saint-Germain can also fulfill his long-cherished wish without Messi.
None of this tells the truth, because the world of football is inherently full of contingencies.