The Squad Sports Blog

Lionel Messi is set to make his 500th appearance for Barcelona at the weekend, and here are some amazing records of him after 499 games for Barcelona, courtesy of Opta: -Messi has 424 goals in 499 games with an average of 0.85 goals per game. -His highest scoring season was in the 2011-12 season where he score 50 times in La Liga and 14 times in the Champions League scoring a total of 73 in all competitions. -He has scored in 266 matches and Barca have only lost on 9 occasions whenever he scored (3.4 percent). -He has scored 236 goals at Camp Nou, 174 at away grounds and 14 at neutral grounds including goals in the 2009 and 2011 Champions League finals. -Messi has scored 12 times at the Santiago Bernabeu and 11 times at the Vincente Calderon, his two highest scoring grounds away from home. -He has played his 499 matches under five coaches, the most 219 under Pep Guardiola and the least 46 under Gerardo Martino. -He has tasted victory 349 times in 499 matches. -Messi has spent 3...

Jose Mourinho and Chelsea Football Club parted ways today by mutual consent as revealed by the official website of the club, www.chelseafc.com after losing his 9th English Premier League game of the season which left the team languishing in 16th place with 15 points in 16 games. Despite this, Jose Mourinho still boasts the best points per game ratio of managers in the Premier League and is still the best Chelsea manager of all time with 7 trophies in two spells (2004-2007 and 2013-2015). He's still the Special One.