Joey Barton has always had a flair for the punchline and 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
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“There is 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 attack Lionel Messi violently in his podcast “Common Sense”. The former OM player believes that the Argentine was “genetically modified”.
Injections from the age of eight
“He was given growth hormone and all kinds of drugs to help him grow. As far as I know, no one else has done this.”says Joey Barton.
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The former midfielder refers to the diagnosis established in the childhood of the former number 10 of FC Barcelona. “It was only my parents who gave me the injections from the age of eight until I learned. So at the age of 12 I started injecting my legs myself once a night.explained “Pulga” in 2018.
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