🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola: "Don’t write about him, don’t try to describe him. Just watch him."

🇪🇸 Xavi Hernandez: "It is clear that Messi is on a level above all others. Those who do not see that are blind."

🇪🇸 Luis Enrique: "Messi is the best in the world without any doubt and for me the history of football."

🇩🇪 Franz Beckenbauer: "Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Maradona's."

🇳🇱 Johan Cruyff: "For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is a role model for children around the world… Messi will be the player to win the most Ballon d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He’s in a different league."

🇮🇹 Gianluigi Buffon: "I had to touch Messi to make sure he was human like us."

🇫🇷 Franck Ribéry: "Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary."

🇫🇷 Zinedine Zidane: "He is always going forward. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the the goal. So as a football fan, just enjoy the show."

🇮🇪 Roy Keane: "I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current Ronaldo but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them."

🇧🇷 Pelé: "I like Messi a lot, he’s a great player. Technically, we’re practically at the same level."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Sir Alex Ferguson: "Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Messi without question comes into that category."

🇦🇷 Diego Maradona: "I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wayne Rooney: "I just think Messi is, in my eyes, the greatest ever."

🇵🇹 José Mourinho: "Messi is the god of football. When Messi has the ball, one on one, you’re dead."

🇸🇪 Zlatan Ibrahimović: "Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he’s still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, then we would have a serious problems."

🇩🇪 Jürgen Klopp: "I have coached a few really good players. My dad likes Pele, but Messi is the best ever."

🇨🇲 Samuel Eto'o: "Messi is god, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Lineker: "Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele… Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game which we are not familiar."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Scholes: "I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Ronaldo and the greatest of them all is Messi."

🇪🇸 Carles Puyol: "This Barça will be remembered as Messi’s Barça. He’s well above anything else I’ve ever seen. He’s an alien."

🇦🇷 Javier Mascherano: "Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is."

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi: “I have achieved everything in football. There is nothing left.” 🐐

Peter Drury said "Lionel Messi has shaken hands with paradise the little boy from Rosario, Santa Fe, has just pitched up in heaven. He climbs into a galaxy of his own. He has his crowning moment. But as he falls in love with the object in the world that his heart most desired, it is hard to escape the supposition that he has rendered himself today - the Greatest of All Time."