Joey Barton has always had a sense of the punchline and the provocation. The English midfielder estimated, in his podcast, that Lionel Messi must have an asterisk next to his name because according to him, he was “genetically modified”.
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Joey Barton wore the OM jersey in 2013. | PHOTO: GERARD JULIEN / AFP
“There’s a big asterisk on Messi’s name for me, because he took steroids and all that from a very young age. » Joey Barton did not hesitate to virulently attack Lionel Messi in his podcast “Common Sense”. The former OM player believes that the Argentinian was ” genetically modified “.
Injections from the age of eight
“He was given growth hormone and all sorts of medications to help him grow. As far as I know, no one else has done this.”believes Joey Barton.
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The former midfielder refers to the diagnosis established during the childhood of the former number 10 of FC Barcelona. “It was first my parents who gave me the injections from the age of eight, until I learned. Then at the age of 12, I started injecting my legs myself once a night”explained the “Pulga” in 2018.
