Last summer, Messi joined Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent. For Messi's transfer, there are still many doubts in football, they feel that Messi went to Paris to take a high salary pension to accumulate strength, and then finally exerted his strength at the Qatar World Cup.
Last season, Messi's performance was so far from his time at Barca that he didn't even make the Ballon 30 this year, and Messi's pension in Paris is even more like being taken seriously. However, Messi did not care at all about the criticism of the outside world, what he did was to train well and prove himself with his performance on the pitch, and this season, Messi did it.
4 goals and 7 assists, this is the data that Messi has sent so far since the start of the new season, although there is still a bit of a gap with Neymar's anti-heavenly data, but considering that Messi is already a 35-year-old veteran, plus he is even more behind the field, so his performance has really been very good. In addition, Messi's attendance rate in the new season is also very high, in the last 13 days, Paris has played a total of 5 games, Messi has started in these 5 games, and has only been replaced in the three games against Monaco, Toulouse and Juve, and the cumulative time of the three games is only 16 minutes.
Looking at Messi's playing time in the league, perhaps everyone can see how hard Messi has worked this season. After seven league rounds in Ligue 1, Paris goalkeeper Donnarumma was the team's king of appearances, starting all seven games and playing all over the game, his playing time was 630 minutes, and in second place was Messi. He also started all seven league games and was replaced for a total of only 10 minutes, which means that Messi played 620 minutes, Messi's strike partner Neymar played 532 minutes, and Mbappe played only 497 minutes. So why is Messi obviously much older than his teammates, but still has such a high playing time? This is mainly due to the lack of organizational capacity of the Paris midfield.
Compared with the front and back, the Paris midfield has always been the biggest weakness of the team. Even though there are stars such as Verratti in the team, there are also stars such as Sorell and Sanchez joining this summer, but they are more good at intercepting and sweeping in midfield than organizing, once Messi is not there, the threat of the Paris midfielder to deliver the ball forward is greatly reduced, so for Messi, Paris does not dare to let him rest easily.
Messi is also very happy to be able to play for Paris. Although there is a World Cup at the end of this year, never question the professional ethics of a star, especially a king-level superstar like Messi, whether for clubs or national teams, Messi is 100% paying.