A fortune: How much money did Lionel Messi devalue in FC Barcelona

Lionel Messi is the best player of the world. Or at least, he has been one of the best for more than a decade. That status was rewarded with an extremely high market value, actually the highest one in the world. But at 34 years old, it reduced drastically and in the last two years it devalued immensely.

He had reached his peak just before the 2018 Russia World Cup, with Transfermarkt pointing his value at 180 million euro at 32 years old. At that point, he was suffering the first shameful defeats with FC Barcelona, and then came the early knock out for Argentina. Since then, it went always down, and at the end of that year, it was 20 million lower.

With a 2019 that had an incredible comeback from Liverpool that took the Cules out of UEFA Champions League final, he ended that year at 140 million. Then 2020 had the economic crisis of the pandemic, and the historic 2-8 loss to Bayern Munich. That reduced his market value to just 80 million euro.

Yes, his market value reduced 100 millions in just two years, and it does not seem to get better. He was the worthiest, but now he is just the 19th in that ranking. Kylian Mbappe is at top with 180 millions at his worthiness, the fee that PSG paid AS Monaco for him and the best number that Messi has ever had.