ESPN FC’s Julien Laurens joins Gab Marcotti on the Gab & Juls Show to discuss Lionel Messi’s future at PSG after their Champions League exit vs. Bayern Munich.

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  1. you idiots are just that. You CANT play 50 game at your best. Leo tried to play as deep, but when nobody can turn on the rythm what do you expect. When they cut lines and there are 3 players you cant just dribble. Life doesnt work like that. Why didnt Vitinha scored an open goal? Nobody talks that. Ay yo, get lost.

  2. Lol , despite messi at the age of 35 turning 36 soon . He was running all over the pitch and contributed more than mbappe at 24 who was supposed to be the future GOAT and face of football .

  3. How do you expect Messi or Mbappe to have an influence when the midfielders were hot garbage? Vitinha could’ve easily tied the goal difference. Veratti gifted them 2 goals and Fabian Ruiz was terrible. You can’t expect attackers to come back, build up and score at the same time. PSG always gets run over in the midfield.

  4. It’s not about age you son of a guns, He’s never really been on big stage. A player with a great talent, but lacks a winning mentality. He’s a rat when it come to games like this. How can we call a rat a goat 🤷🏽‍♂️

  5. Messi has always been the type to walk around and has always been effective that way. Psg just doesn't wanna use him the way they are supposed to

  6. This guy is french by the way, that is why he is saying that. Hes mad, all thats happening is that messi isn't being used correctly. You don't go from the best player in the world with an all timer performance in the world cup to a much worse player for ur club. Its clearly a team issue, messi still got and it was proven in t he w orld cup

  7. He was the top rated player on PSG for the game, and involved in virtually every close chance they had. It wasn’t because of Messi. The team is trash and Messi should take his talents elsewhere.

  8. Well, first of all, Messi was not five yards ahead of Goretzka on the counter attack. They were level, or perhaps Goretzka was a yard ahead of him. Also, take into account that Messi is running with the ball. Goretzka is like twice Messi's size and he barged him off the ball. He got his arm across him and lunged at him in desperation. This guy is such a pessimist. He craps all over Neymar and all over Messi. He has a poor understanding of the game. He just wants someone to blame, and so if Neymar isn't around, Messi is next in line to get it. What about Super Star Mbappe? He was invisible throughout. Messi had a better game than that guy, that's for sure. That's not even opinion. It's just a fact!

  9. Jules seems to have erased the world cup from his mind. I wonder why… Messi showed on the biggest stage that he is still able to perform. This is someone who in a world cup semi final made Gvardiol look like an average defender, when he is one of the biggest prospects around. Messi remains a great player. The real problem is with the lack of quality and support that the midfield provide the attack. Compared to the best sides in the CL, the midfield is average.

  10. How are these fools not talking about how bad Donnarumma has been for the club FFS!!! Did they even watch the game?!?! Messi was creating so many chances and was dominating the midfield and giving Bayern a hard time! FFS!!! He can’t do it all! You can’t expect Messi to be a goal keeper, defensive midfielder and also be the playmaker/striker for the club!

  11. PSG are just not a very good team. I don't know why Messi gets singled out for this just because he's the GOAT. He's 35 now, Mbappe is supposed to be taking the reigns as the next best player in the world. Yet he got the lowest match rating in the team. Doesn't get mentioned though because he's not Messi. The reality is, it was neither of their fault, they've just got an average team behind them and can't do it on their own when playing a top team like Bayern.

  12. If this was Ronaldo these 2 would’ve started making out and started to suck each other off. Messi walked all game, WALKED. Watch it. He’s gunna win balon dor but now he’s old not good anymore? Bash him like you did Ronaldo.

  13. so let me get this straight, messi and mbappe were quiet yes agree. But messi being the greatest gets the criticism but what about your midfield being so bad and the defence cos last time i saw the goal came from a PSG mistake and before that vitinha had the chance to score. But you say he cannot play at this level? im sorry did you watch the world cup? you want a 35 yr old to run around be flexible at that age when hes walked on the pitch his whole life. You have to play certain style and not have 1 dimensional attack. 2 brilliant wing backs but not a single decent cross? jules reactionary af

  14. The simplest fact is that you can not allow 2 players in the same team walking around the pitch against a quality team. Leo Messi is not going to press, neither do Mbappe. But one of them have to press. So who should do it?
    If you let Messi play his own game, you are potentially getting a Messi who is World Cup Golden Ball winner, copa america best player. What Kiliyan Mbappe did in his career {while walking} that he can be allowed to walk around!! Nothing…
    Its Mbappe who should press when they are off the all. Mbappe is 23, he got more legs than 35yo Leo Messi.! He should do it, if he cared about the team, which he doesn't.

  15. Let us be honest as fans. Stop isolating Messi as if he was playing alone against Buyern. It's a team's effort and he needs someone who understands how to use him to be effective. How did the teams favorite play ?. Newmar is under-rated

  16. People are criticising Messi when the midfield is dead and defense is also not good. Man had to drop so deep that sometimes he got to cb position. Still he created 3 key chances and got shots but when you're the best people will only look to blame you.
    Mbappe ghosted, Vitinha missed open goal and Veratti was the sole reason for first goals but still you see him only ESPN to make money.

  17. people expect messi to dribble past 10 players and score. theyre not playing to his strengths. look at how Argentina won at his age vs in 2014 when he was in his prime. everytime he got the ball there were no outlets for him to pass to

  18. Julian has no idea what he is talking about. According him there are better teams than Bayern in this competition. Which one ? Bayern can beat any team without being at there best ,they only play are there best when they realy have to. Show me any team who can beat Inter , Barca and PSG over 6 games, taking all the points, scoring 12 goals and didn't concede even one goal .?

  19. They don't know how to use a player like Lionel Messi, or even mbappe N Neymar for that matter.🙄 What Messi can do, he doesn't need to prove it. Their 24 yr old superstar showed no intentions either. They will not gonna blame the whole management of psg but just Messi when he received the most tackles, created 3 big chances. PSG can never win a cl with such poor management+ 0 bench strength.

  20. If I'm not mistaken, Messi had a better rating than Mbappe in Wednesday's match against Bayern. Also, what's with Juls' illogical diatribes against Messi anytime PSG fails to win matches? I thought football was a team sport. PSG's defence is deplorable (Ramos and Danilo did good, but not the rest) and the Qataris commited a blunder by letting Navas, Di Maria and Paredes go. Talking about Juls, his obsession and leeway for Mbappe is certainly growing stupid, and it feels like he is still sulking about Messi & Co besting France in the Final.

  21. Mr. Juls forgot Messi's assist against croatia for Argentina's 3rd goal in world cup semifinal anyway Mr. Juls has to understand this the kind of players psg have in the roster let alone Messi even all mighty God couldn't save psg's @$$ from kicked out of CL

  22. Just a big CLOWNERY 🤡 talk by Julian Laurens. The classic french biased journalist.

    Just go back and watch what he said before the match vs now. LOL. Singing entirely different tunes.

    Why don't you pointed out Mbappe's performance instead of putting all the blames on Messi and even mentioned Neymar too? Because he's a french. Also, gives credit to the opponent. They win because they are good not just because your team were bad. Didn't you feel confident that the Messi-Mbappe duo will do well before the game because of their last 3 matches prior to Bayern? 🤡

  23. Talking about Messi name one of the PSG midfield who is good enough at this level? They are not good enough. Verratti is not as good as he was, Vitinho is not good enough and Ruiz is not at that level. Messi cannot dominate a midfield anymore like he used to.

  24. What the actual F… He is been absent from this competition since he was 26. Absolute travesty what media created about the big lie that is Missing

  25. Obviously he does not have pace, but his vision , decision making, passing , play making, shooting and set piece threat are all still at the top. Yes its narrow sighted to build a team around him right now, but he is still an asset to which ever team he goes to. And i believe, with hardworking and selfless players around him…he can make a pretty average team into something great.

  26. Baby bape will go crying home again. Psg is nothing but egoism and narratives from top to bottom it's not a real football club it's just a bunch of different ideals and ideologies clashing and tugging for each respective convenience.

  27. Juls juls, juls……

    Build a team around Messi like Argentina did and he will flourish!!!.. how does Veratti make a mistake like that in his own box, how does Vitinha miss an open goal like that..

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