The seven-time Ballon d'Or winner was targeted by a section of supporters once again at Parc des Princes at the weekend

Mauricio Pochettino says it is "unbelievable" that some Paris Saint-Germain fans continued to boo Lionel Messi after his star turn against Lens on Saturday, which helped the club clinch their 10th Ligue 1 title.

Messi has endured a frustrating debut campaign at PSG, having joined the club on a free transfer following his surprise departure from Barcelona last summer.

The 34-year-old's output in the final third has dropped considerably and he was unable to inspire the team beyond the round of 16 in the Champions League, with supporters singling him out for blame alongside Neymar.

Messi's underwhelming 2021-22

Messi scored 38 goals across all competitions in his final season at Barcelona, but has only managed nine so far in 2021-22.

Only four of those have been recorded in Ligue 1, with PSG relying more on
Kylian Mbappe as their main source of goals as the Frenchman has netted 33 in 42 appearances.

Messi has however also provided 13 assists, and after adding Ligue 1 to his trophy collection he is now just four pieces of silverware behind former Barca team-mate Dani Alves' all-time record of 43

Source https://twitter.com/goal/status/1518524004172247040?t=C21FsHOrKiOfXtPTPhka1w&s=19

$500,000 per week is enough to get booed for his lack of performance oga !

DoctorOlasDesk:
$500,000 per week is enough to get booed for his lack of performance oga !

9 goals and 13 assists is not a bad outing for a regular player but for a player of Messi's caliber, he had it coming

phr0nesis:

9 goals and 13 assists is not a bad outing for a regular player but for a player of Messi's caliber, he had it coming

French league. Lol. By EPL standards, that's just 2 goals. Abeg shift

Ronaldo's 10+ goals if transferred to french league, would amount to atleast 40 goals

Obembet you are simply an incorrigible hater.

Messi scored a goal of the season contender in that same match and cinched the league title for them, you did not see that to report separately, since you are the mods anointed one for FP. You are now bringing an irrelevant news for Messi to be criticized. Even the news is fake cos it was the entire PSG team including Mbappe that was booed.

How hard is it for you to just say congratulations? And you'd be yapping about how you also respect Messi and Ronaldo together. When Ronaldo lost his kid, even Messi fans set aside their personal sentiments to commiserate with him. I repeat, how hard is it for you to rise above immature sentiments and congratulate a league winner who lit up the game with a stunning goal?

Nairaland mods are your enablers. It's unfortunate that they are bringing their personal bias into sports reportage. They've turned a once impartial forum sportswise into an anti-Messi site to the extent that they could not even report on a top five league title win on FP.

I know it's the fact that Messi is widely considered the GOAT of football that is seriously paining them. Even at that, because the GOAT is in PSG, you decide not to report any positive news about PSG or Messi?, the fact that he has had 22 direct goal involvements in a supposedly poor season? That is simply incompetent reportage.

DoctorOlasDesk:
$500,000 per week is enough to get booed for his lack of performance oga !

Why won’t he be booed! He’s paid astronomical wages n he looks lost in Ligue 1… there’s times you just have to face it, he’s not been good! Not really himself.

To me, Messi’s performance out of BARCA dose not surprise me at all. It was predicted. PSG has won the League 1 x9 without Messi. This doesn’t make any difference.

He is paid for incompetency.

arsenal won united, cr7 scored his 100th epl goal, this moniker forgot united loss dt was more important bcoz they lost hope on making top4 and instead created a thread about cr7 100 epl goal n it made fp dt same day..
messi scored a stunner n PSG won the league, this moniker said nothing about messi goal or him winning his 38th trophy (second highest in the world only behind alves on 43) but instead shifted his focus on "fans booing messi" when it was the whole of PSG players dt were targeted bcoz d fans were still pained about dt madrid loss, even neyma n veratti complained about the boos..
numerous threads about messi goal n his league win are in sports section bt none would make d fp bcoz he isnt cr7..
all this bias n hate for messi only starts n ends here, messi is a born winner n gat nothing to prove to be crowned the GOAT..

DoctorOlasDesk:
$500,000 per week is enough to get booed for his lack of performance oga !

and 480k per week and ending up outside top4 is better abi??
u forgetting dt this same nited made UCL last season without cr7 n his goals...
after d season, when cr7 leaves bcoz I dont see him playing conference league, this same bad united with bad players will start winning games n easily make top 4 again next season..

Revolution2022:
He is paid for incompetency.

He is the reason PSG lost in RO16 Missed a crucial penalty.
Nonsense and overrated player.

Revolution2022:
He is paid for incompetency.

and cr7 is being paid for competency because his goals n assist av won united many games n trophies this season...
common top4 dt ole united finished last season, this cr7 united cnt even attempt it, bt instead, his fans are blaming the bad team n players...
Assuming messi came to PSG after dey finished 2nd and now in 8th position with messi scoring 30 goals, cr7 fans Will still blast messi as a badluck dt spoiled tinz..
Now its cr7 n dey are talking "goals" wen united are drowning in conference league..

obembet:


He is the reason PSG lost in RO16 Missed a crucial penalty.
Nonsense and overrated player.

and united are in UCL top4 because of the perfect and talented cr7 abi??
the same cr7 dt ghosted all tru athletico game n didnt record a single shot on target in dt second leg..
Messi jus won d league n cr7 is planning on leaving for a UCL team n united dt he met in 3rd position BT now in 7th position....u no reason dt wan o..
funny hypocritets

DoctorOlasDesk:



French league. Lol. By EPL standards, that's just 2 goals. Abeg shift

this table shifting eeh...messi had 5 ucl goals n cr7 had 6..so wat d difference between both??
in all competition messi has 21 goals contribution in 30games and a trophy already..
and ronaldo has 25 in 35games n won nothing..
u guys are making it sound asif cr7 have 40 goals and in UCL top4 this season...
Always supporting mediocrity bcoz he is ur man..
PSG not performing in UCL means messi deal haven't work n united not winning a trophy n not finishing top4 means dt cr7 deal was a waste of cash n even worst...deal with it..

obembet:


He is the reason PSG lost in RO16 Missed a crucial penalty.
Nonsense and overrated player.

He is NOT the reason PSG lost in round of 16. Even if he had scored the penalty, PSG would still only have won the first leg 1-0 cos they would have gone defensive to protect the lead and Mbappe would not have been under pressure to score the dying minute goal.

He will always be GOAThead and shoulders above your Cristiano Wasiu. His seven Ballon dors are a testament to that and there's nothing your miserable hating self can do about it.

obembet:


Why won’t he be booed! He’s paid astronomical wages n he looks lost in Ligue 1… there’s times you just have to face it, he’s not been good! Not really himself.

To me, Messi’s performance out of BARCA dose not surprise me at all. It was predicted. PSG has won the League 1 x9 without Messi. This doesn’t make any difference.

he looks lost in the league and cr7 was found against teams like Watford, Liverpool, everton, brentford, liecester, chelsea n city in epl abi??
PSG av won d league 9 times bt lost the same league to lille last season and I wonder how many threads u would about created assuming dey lost the league with messi this season..
ur cr7 is still on 32 trophies while messi have 38, when both are done, messi would finish with more ballon d or and more trophies than ur cr7..
years letta, if the GOAT aguement comes up, the answer would be glaring for all to see and cant be hidden or covered with sentiments..

paulolee:
arsenal won united, cr7 scored his 100th epl goal, this moniker forgot united loss dt was more important bcoz they lost hope on making top4 and instead created a thread about cr7 100 epl goal n it made fp dt same day..
messi scored a stunner n PSG won the league, this moniker said nothing about messi goal or him winning his 38th trophy (second highest in the world only behind alves on 43) but instead shifted his focus on "fans booing messi" when it was the whole of PSG players dt were targeted bcoz d fans were still pained about dt madrid loss, even neyma n veratti complained about the boos..
numerous threads about messi goal n his league win are in sports section bt none would make d fp bcoz he isnt cr7..
all this bias n hate for messi only starts n ends here, messi is a born winner n gat nothing to prove to be crowed the GOAT..

I can only imagine how pained she was seeing Messi score a worldie and PSG win the title, and how she must have seethed angrily with every positive news about Messi on various Sports site since Saturday and how she must have waited and waited for the tiniest bit of negative report to the extent of latching on to a fake one just to showcase her miserable existence without Messi bad news.

The sweet thing is that her rantings takes nothing away from Messi's GOAT status which has been sealed since achieving the perfect Seven.

Comot body joo

Is messi not a human, what is unbelievable there

Messi is a player that cannot win trophies without xavi, iniesta. PSG fans are starting to see Messi for the fraudster that he is. Imagine getting paid $1m weekly, yet he's unable to win matches for them.

Messi help his club to grab the ligue1 title , I am yet to see that one on front page even when multiple threads have been created. Assuming it was the self acclaimed goat penaldo, boxnado, we won't be hearing something here on nairaland. Nairaland mods are not straight forward with their job. Rubbish.

LoL

This my special goat is turning into literal goat of Gambia aka ewu Gambia....am in sifia pains right now but the fact remains that psg won the league with messi as a player

Messi collecting wortor wortor on the farm back to back.

You see one the reasons why the world is bad. A media outlet like Nairaland should be neutral. once that neutrality is compromised, it's a sh*t show.

PSG won Ligue one last weekend and Messi Scored a screamer. The goal that won that league. It didn't make front page. If that was CR7, there would 25 trades on FP.

But PSG fans booing that happened after the UCL exit, is making front page.

Shame on Nairaland and their mods

Do are they really expecting Messi to perform
Messi only perform when he has the kind of support he has at Barca , he can to PSG to collect pension and nothing more (500k per week )

Omo mmmm

the guy is overrated for the money but ronaldo dey do well