>>50598586He was also one of the best players in the world, playing in one of the greatest teams in the world and right up until Game Freak started on Gen 9, when Barca utterly shit the bed and had to let him go as they couldn't afford to keep him and field a team of 11. ut Game Freak had decided and signed off on him, so ran with it (that Messi's football career is entirely down to modern advances in science only further establishes a connection between him and Professor Turo's research into the future).