Done deal
So there you have it. Lionel Messi is a Paris Saint-Germain player.
Feels weird, doesn't it? Not so much the sight of him in a PSG kit; more the fact they felt the need for that motion sickness-inducing video to announce that the deal was done.
Now that we've mopped up the last of the puke, here, as promised, is the fifth edition of our Photoshop Challenge.
It feels like an eternity since we asked you to poke fun at
Thomas Muller's costly miss against England all those weeks ago. And after being offered a first glimpse of Messi in his new team's gear, we couldn't let the opportunity pass us by.
Having scrubbed the lettering from his shirt, we asked you to come up with an alternative t-shirt design for the former(!) Barcelona man.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1425113201419689986
You didn't let us down. You
never let us down.
Here's a look at some of our favourites. Please note that it's probably worth a look at the full thread. There's bound to be plenty of good ones that have slipped the net.
NOB
Did we expect an official account of the club Messi played for as a boy to be getting involved in this? Nah, not really. But this was great stuff from Newell's Old Boys. A solid start.
https://twitter.com/Newells_en/status/1425114865929183233
Rihanna
2010 was a wild time, wasn't it? When every young adult in the United Kingdom was legally obliged to wear the same Topman t-shirt with Rihanna's face on it on nights out / holidays to Malia. Just when we thought we'd forgotten it, @MikeWhatmore reminds us.
https://twitter.com/MikeWhatmore/status/1425115137942376449
Tracy
Lionel Messi, dressed to kill for Tracy's Hen Night. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't
need to make sense.
https://twitter.com/Official_SBerty/status/1425114569467379713
This
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1425117969416327178
Bruce
A topless Steve Bruce with the legs of a flamingo. Perfect.
https://twitter.com/samj612/status/1425132250157494273
Cricket
It had its doubters, but Lionel's clearly a fan. Anything to take your mind of your old employers becoming an utter shitshow.
https://twitter.com/SamReddish_/status/1425179565916315648
Inbetweeners
Bonus points for making the t-shirt pink.
https://twitter.com/Kitkingdom83/status/1425148901078802436
Dine
We're not sure why, but Sean Clark wanted Messi to remind us of an iconic moment in Come Dine With Me history. And that's absolutely fine.
https://twitter.com/Sean__Clark/status/1425170898278043651
Qatar
Very well played to Andrew Meddings. Sure PSG's Qatari owners will be delighted with this one.
https://twitter.com/andrewmeddings/status/1425159211122626564
Shirtception
Surprised this didn't come through sooner tbh. A nice bit of meta humour for you all here
https://twitter.com/s_angga1021/status/1425116788145090562
It's Always Sunny In Paris
We always knew Messi looked like a Sunny fan. I wonder if Wrexham was ever on Messi's radar for a transfer?
https://twitter.com/martinatk10/status/1425114776968077312
