Where will Messi be in 10 years

Nobody predicted the rise to superstar of Lionel Messi from that skinny teenage boy to the greatest player of all times. 

Of course, there where people who predicted this move for Messi, like Charly Rexach when he was presidential advisor and who signed the Argentinian with a contract on a serviette, or Frank Rijkaard who gave him is first opportunity with the senior team back in October 16th 2004.

In the latest book about Guardiola, Pep Confidential by Marti Perarnau, former Barcelona coach explains how he told Messi to turn into a false nine. 

He was in his office before El Clasico in May 2009 and watching a video of Real Madrid searching for clues to beat the defense; he saw a gap between the two centre-backs and then he realized that he needed someone to receive the ball and drive into; this man was Lionel Messi.

He immediate called Lionel Messi number and told him to come over to his office to show him something important, one hour later, a young Lionel Messi entered coach office and from that point, this was the “Messi Zone”.

Barcelona won that game with an incredible 6-2 and Messi was born, he broke all the records and winning four Ballon d’Ors.

Now at 27, he is halfway of his career and entered the best moments, so probably the best move will be for Luis Enrique to bring him away from the front line deploying him as a traditional 10 instead of the false 9.

Having signed Luis Suarez and Neymar, Messi could find more space deeper and producing plenty of assists for his team and probably winning some more Ballon d’Ors in the way. A move that we already saw on the last matches.

From here is difficult to predict, at 30 the physical attributes start to decline and probably he will end up relaying on his technical ability and probably dropping even deeper, even as a central midfield