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An interesting discourse in recent years has been that despite featuring a player who could legitimately be argued as the greatest of all time in Lionel Messi, there have been few people pushing the idea of Barcelona as a one-man team. Even when Barca have played poorly and escaped purely on a special moment from Messi, as is becoming increasingly necessary in a difficult season for the Catalans, they have somehow managed to escape the accusations directed at pretty much any team with a star player. Maybe it is because it so obviously untrue, with Barca fielding world class players in most positions, but then so is the concept: one of the arguments against Messi being the best player in the history of the game is the quality of his teammates compared to someone like Diego Maradona, yet they finished a lowly 8th in his first season at Napoli, before effectively blackmailing club president Corrado Ferlaino into buying Alessandro Renica, Alemao, Carceca and Fernando De Napoli. An exceptional player can do the work of two or even three players, but he needs some sort of help – Maradona wasn’t exactly reknowned for his defending, although he did show he might [...]
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