“A ten out of ten as a player and as a person,” Lionel Messi said about Sergio Busquets, the captain of FC Barcelona, who announced today that he will leave at the end of the season.

Most people think Busquets will quit all of European football, so Messi took some time to praise his former partner in a post on his official Instagram.

Some people think this is more evidence of a long-rumored split between Messi and Gerard Piqué, since the Argentine didn’t make a similar post when the defender recently retired.

They have been teammates for a long time and have spent as much time together as Messi and Busquets on the first team for Barcelona. In fact, Messi and Piqué have known each other since Messi joined the same Barcelona youth team that Piqué was on when he was young.

It is said that the fight began in 2021. Piqué is said to have told club head Joan Laporta at this time to let Lionel Messi go because it would be better financially. That made Messi cry, so he left Barcelona, which was his second home after Rosario, where he was born, and joined Paris Saint-Germain.

People say that the Argentine saw Piqué’s efforts as a betrayal.

Who can say if that’s true or not? But it has been written about in all of Spain’s big sports newspapers, and Messi’s choice of what to post on Instagram only adds to the rumors.