“If the club considers it appropriate, we will get to work to meet the objective,” he said.

Romeu says that if Barcelona decide to bring Messi back then the money men would do all they can to make it work financially. It’s thought Messi won’t actually make a decision until after the World Cup, but the rumor mill is getting increasingly excited at the thought of seeing the GOAT back at the Camp Nou. Speculation is growing that Messi could come home when his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expires at the end of the campaign. Barcelona has scored no hat tricks at all since Messi's last.Barcelona vice president Eduard Romeu has once again spoken about the possibility of Lionel Messi returning to the club in the summer transfer window. Real Madrid has scored a total of 4 hat tricks in La Liga and CL since Ronaldo left. The last time someone scored a hat trick for PSG in Ligue 1 was 21 April 2019. Their most rabid fans also see any mention of their decline as an attack on both their longevity and their ability to perform outside RM/Barcelona instead of the reality of them reaching the downward slope that is part of every footballer's career.įor reference (and to make it clear I'm not calling them washed up), hat tricks are supposed to be really uncommon. The truth is that the Ronaldo/Messi era of football domination is already over, but people got too attached to the narrative their competition created, and now they're having a hard time letting go. The last time Messi scored a hat trick for his club was two years ago, on 22 February, 2020 against Eibar.įor full transparency, they each scored a hat trick for their NTs in late 2021, but their opposition was Luxembourg and Bolivia, so if you want to count those, then congrats on always being able to see the glass as half-full.

The last time Ronaldo scored a hat trick for his club was almost a year ago, on 14 March, 2021 against Cagliari. This relative frequency and ease with which they were able to score hat tricks is one of the hallmarks of their dominance of early 21st century club football, and a big component of why people see them as the greatest players of the game. During the peak of their rivalry in La Liga you'd even see them score a hat trick one after the other, which played a part in building the narrative that they were pushing each other further. Is form not a thing anymore for these two now?Īt some point you'd expect a hat trick from Ronaldo or Messi every couple of months.

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