Lionel Messi will go down for many as the greatest of all time and his latest record of 700 club career goals further cements his GOAT legacy.
The 35-year-old has now joined an elite list of players to have scored 700 club goals and there could still be plenty to come. Having scored 17 goals for PSG this season, he has already surpassed his total from the previous campaign.
Messi’s greatest-ever goalscoring year came in 2012 when he was able to score 91 goals across the calendar year. Records are meant to be broken, but that is likely to stand the test of time.
The Argentine forward first scored over 20 goals in a season during Barcelona’s 2008–09 campaign as they went on to win a historic treble with Messi as the centrepiece.
During his remaining 12 seasons with Barcelona, Messi always managed to hit at least 20 goals as well as providing an array of assists during that time.
His best stint at Barcelona arguably came under Pep Guardiola, who has always spoken highly of the Argentine.
“Everyone has [an] opinion, but nobody can doubt that he’s there with the greatest of all time,” Guardiola told reporters.
“For me, I’ve said many times, he’s the best. It’s difficult to understand that a player can appear and compete what he has done in the last 50 or 70 years.
“The people who saw Pele, for example, or [Alfredo] Di Stefano or [Diego] Maradona … they can say they’re my favorite because often these opinions are sentimental.
“But, on the other side, if he [Messi] wouldn’t have won the World Cup, the opinion of what he has done for the world of football, in my opinion, of how he is as a player wouldn’t have changed absolutely anything,” Guardiola added.
“For him, it is the final cherry on an incredible career.”
Messi scored his 700th club goal for PSG in Le Classique against Marseille to secure an emphatic 3-0 win for his side. At 35 years old he’s still looking as sharp as ever.
That’s goal number 7️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ in Lionel Messi’s club career 🔥
Brilliantly worked ✨ pic.twitter.com/bDcIrEvJeJ
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 26, 2023
We’ve crunched the numbers and found nine incredible stats about Messi following the 700 club goals he has now scored. Note: Messi’s goals with Barcelona B and Barcelona C have not been counted towards his tally.
– Throughout his club career, Messi has averaged a goal every 98 minutes. He has played 840 matches at club level and so has averaged…
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