Lionel Messi speaks PSG struggles, Real Madrid's UCL win & picks Ballon d'Or winner

Lionel Messi had a tough first season at Paris Saint-Germain.

While the Argentine forward showed flashes of his brilliance, he failed to live up to expectations with the Parisian giants.

He notched 11 goals and recorded 14 assists in 34 games for the club this season. While those stats are decent, they aren’t comparable to the numbers he racked up at Barcelona.

Messi has now opened up about his struggles this season in an emotional and in-depth interview with TyC sports.

View a round up of his comments below…

Messi on leaving Barcelona and his struggles at PSG:

“I also had to get used to a way of playing because I was used to playing my whole life in one way and arriving at a place where it’s not the same, you play differently, you see football differently, with new teammates… In Barcelona I had teammates who had been playing alongside them for many years and they knew me by heart. This was all new for me.

“On top of that, I started the league late because I arrived late at the club, then I had a knock on my knee that stopped me for a while and between one thing and another it wouldn’t finish starting. I couldn’t play three or four games in a row. The holidays came and I said ‘well, after this I’ll start a new year, I’m going to arrive with all the batteries, I’m going to change, it’s over the adaptation’, and Covid caught me”.

Messi on being booed by Paris Saint-Germain fans:

“It’s also new for me. It’s a different situation. It had never happened to me in Barcelona, ​​quite the opposite. It’s understandable the situation of the people and the anger at the players we had, at the team we were and because a another year, because it is not the first time that a situation like this has happened to Paris, to be left out of