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"Messi could stop now and he would already have done a lot for football," Chelsea's legend Didier Drogba once told AFP back in 2018.
"To win a World Cup would make him even more legendary. He's an extraordinary player!"
On the neverending comparisons to other greats, Drogba added: "Messi is still not at the heights of [Diego] Maradona and Pele, but he's not far away."
Messi has now scored 634 goals in 731 games for Barcelona, winning the Ballon d'Or award for the record-breaking six times.
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