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This is funny because you are actually talking about the year when he scored 91 goals in 69 games in 2012 (when he turned 25), shattering all records during that year with Barcelona and Argentina. There is no point in comparing the 25 year old and 35 year old Messi and then saying that one was better than the other. At 25 he was unstoppable as a striker and dribbler. At 35 he is more of an organizer for the game. But the numbers for the year 2012 when he was 25 are that insane, it doesn't make sense to say that he was a better player at 35. See all his performances and his one-man-shows in the Champions League and in La Liga, scoring up to five goals in a game. We won't see that Messi again, but now we have a different one and he is still one of the best.
Yeah, Messi is a super star, of course.
He is a good player today, but definitely he was better ten years ago.
Aging is a fact of life, and there's nothing we can do about it. New players will come and take his place. He already did everything there is to do in football.