Barcelona are 10 players playing for Messi and Messi being the reason they are competing for anything at all and not playing Europa League. Honestly, he is above everything else in football. I can't believe anyone has the heart to sign players like Paulinho, Aleix Vidal and Andre Gomes to play alongside the greatest of all time instead of signing players at least worth to shine his boots.
My real hope is that Messi has been carrying Barcelona in such a unique way with only Suarez, Ter Stegen, Busquets, Rakitic, Pique and Umtiti as people he can actually trust to be totally reliable, that he might pull this off maybe with Argentina as well. He might not even need 10 teammates but 6 would do the job. As much as you want to talk about Maradona singlehandedly winning the league with Napoli and what not, Messi is doing the same right now with Barcelona at a slightly lower level.