• Philippe Coutinho drove a shot just wide with 12 minutes remaining and Messi curled a free-kick wide but Barcelona were forced to share the points.

• The Catalans have endured an inconsistent season so far, losing four times already in the league, and sit six points off pacesetters Atletico Madrid, Real Sociedad and Real Madrid.

• However the three points are a boost ahead of the visit of Sociedad on Wednesday, which is then followed up by another home clash with Valencia on Saturday.

• His game was perhaps best summed up when, into the final 10 minutes with his team comfortably leading, Ronaldo tracked back and dispossessed Messi inside the Juve box before leading the charge on a counter-attack.

• Carles Tusquets, president of the managing board in charge before club elections in January, said he would have sold Messi in the summer, economically speaking.

• Alves said he shared Messi's concern over how Barca was being run under former president Josep Maria Bartomeu and said the club should have showed more respect to their all-time top scorer,
• Messi is as great as the badge of Barcelona. But as he could see that everything around him was a disaster, it's understandable that he wanted to leave.

• The two heavyweights were drawn in Group G along with Dynamo Kiev of Ukraine and Ferencvaros.

• Messi referred to his attempt to force Barcelona to release him from the final year of his contract.

Argentine led Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 win at home against Villarreal in a near-perfect La Liga opener.

The Uruguayan joined Atletico Madrid after spending six years at Camp Nou.

• The Bosnian was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus and had to quarantine before starting to train with Barcelona last week.
• I can't imagine Messi in another shirt, I thought it would all end well.

• It's great, everyone knows he's the best player in the world, so to have that player in your team is exceptional.
• "It's good to have a friendly, all the players will have 45 minutes to reach the intensity levels we want to see."

• The club's all-time top scorer finally appeared at the Joan Gamper training ground ahead of an evening session.
• The Argentine claimed in an official letter that he was free to leave the club unilaterally and without a transfer fee owing to the clause.

• Six-time world player of the year Messi insists he can leave on a free transfer while Barcelona.
• La Liga released a statement on Sunday saying Messi's contract was still valid.

Argentine’s failure to show for his medical underlined the 33-year-old's determination to leave the club.

• Messi stunned world soccer earlier this week when he expressed his desire to leave Barcelona after nearly two decades with the Catalan club.
• It would make it even more difficult to beat them (City) which was already very difficult," Klopp told.

• Messi's lawyers informed Barcelona on Tuesday that the Argentine wanted to take up a release clause in his contract which could allow him to leave for nothing.
• Barcelona don't want to lose their best player for nothing, so they'll try to convince the player to stay or agree to let him leave if they receive a good offer from another club.

• If there is no change then we will announce Koeman as our next coach and he will lead this team and these players forward with a different type of project.
• The defender later became the club's assistant coach before embarking on an eventful career as a head coach,

The only surviving former winners of European club football's greatest prize – with five titles each – meet in a heavyweight Champions League quarter-final behind closed doors at the Estadio da Luz.

Frustrated with the lack of direction at the club, Lionel Messi halted talks about extending his contract beyond 2021.