Barcelona can’t retire Lionel Messi’s jersey number

DBasia.news – Many clubs have paid homage to their legend by retiring his jersey number. But a similar step can not be done by Barcelona to Lionel Messi.

The combination of Messi and Barcelona has produced a series of titles and records. La Pulga deserves the status as the greatest legend of El Barca.

Unfortunately, Messi had just ended his two decades of service to Barcelona. The Blaugrana failed to extend the superstar’s contract because of the LaLiga regulations regarding the salary burden limit.

This decision is certainly very surprising. Many people hope Messi can retire at Barcelona.

The demand for Barcelona to remove the number 10 jersey from their jersey list also surfaced. No other player is considered capable of rivaling Messi’s level.

However, this request is very challenging to fulfill. LaLiga regulations are the main obstacle.

Unlike other elite European leagues, LaLiga is indeed quite strict in regulating player numbers. Each club may only use jersey numbers from 1 to 25 for the first team.

That means Barcelona have to reduce one main player slot if they want to retire the number 10 jersey. A difficult choice to choose.

As an illustration, no LaLiga club has retired one of its jersey numbers. So we seem to just have to wait for the player who is given the responsibility to use the Barcelona number 10 jersey from Messi.