More encomiums are still pouring in for Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, who over the weekend broke Gerd Muller’s long standing record of 85 goals scored in a calender year.
Arsenal manager described the Argentine star as ‘unbelievable’ and said what he was doing is ‘mesmerising’.
“Congratulations to Messi. He is just mesmerising. What he is doing is unbelievable,” he told the Arsenal website. “Even with the biggest imagination, I would not have thought somebody would be capable of doing that.
“He makes it look so easy to score, and we are all tempted to say ‘let us walk on this pitch and score goals’, because it looks so easy when he does it. When you have played football, you know how difficult it is to score one goal.
“To think that one player can score 86 per year, if you think you play nine and a half months, it’s nearly 10 goals guaranteed per month. When you start the month, you know this boy will give you 10 goals, that is not bad!”
His former Barcelona team mate, Samuel eto’o, also joined in praising the 25-year-old’s achievements and called him a ‘god’.
“Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player,” the Anzhi striker told RT. “I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina. To the gods of the world, all I ask is that you give him that chance because I have seen him grow. I can only hope for the best because I have seen and know what a good boy he is.”
“He is a genius, and not just in football. The day I was upset, I did not play well, but when you saw him arrive in the locker room with a smile on his face, you knew he was going to roll.”
Messi may extend his record before 2013, with the Blaugrana scheduled to play four more times before the new year.
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