In the post-Messi era, nobody wants Barcelona's 10: Who wears it?

08/18/2021 10:32 AM

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Updated 08/18/2021 10:32 AM

It was 13 years of Lionel Messi with Barcelona's 10 on his back.

13 years in which the most important player in the club's history wore the most significant jersey in the squad.

And now that it is

gone

,

the question is who is going to inherit it

.

Messi's 10 has no new owner yet.

The number that Leo used is the only one that still has no owner. They have offered it to Philippe Coutinho, who has recently signed his continuity in the institution, however, the idea does not convince him: the Brazilian knows that for personal reasons, due to his past at the club, all eyes will be on He still does not have the 10 on his back, so he considers that accepting the offer would add even more pressure when playing. Although the decision does not depend only on Coutinho.

As the Brazilian did not enter the call for last weekend's match against Real Sociedad for the first date of LaLiga for having received medical discharge on Saturday,

the 14 that he used to use was given to Rey Manaj

, who did form part of those summoned despite the fact that their future is unknown.

And so, then, 

the 10 is the only number that has been available at the moment.

What could 'save' Coutinho from having to assume the responsibility of becoming the heir to the heaviest shirt in history is that the outputs of Pjanic, who wears number 8, or Umtiti, who wears 23, are defined. But if there are no departures between now and Saturday ... the 10th would become his. 

Will Coutinho be the new bearer of Barcelona's 10?

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Who will wear Messi's 10 at Barcelona?

For now, the heaviest jersey in the Catalan club's history remains vacant.

Nobody dared to use it in the 4-2 game against Real Sociedad, in what was the debut of Koeman's team in the League.

The post-Leo era, by the way, leaves a great void.

This was recognized by Gerard Piqué in a conversation via Twitch with streamer Ibai Llanos.

But the historic defender warned that he sees another Argentine with a badge to hang that number: Sergio Agüero.

"I TOLD THE KUN TO PUT ON THE 10", Piqué commented to Ibai in his live.

Who should wear the shirt that Messi left vacant in Barcelona?

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"No one is wearing 10, right? No balls," Ibai Llanos asked him.

"Well, I think someone will have to put it on.

I told Kun to put it on. But Kun doesn't see it clearly,

" Piqué replied.

The streamer added that "that shirt has an extra 30 kilos of weight."

And then, the captain of Barsa admitted: "On the one hand, wearing the 10 is something very cool, but on the other, because of the history and so on, it's very complicated."

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