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.
🚨 PHOTOSHOP CHALLENGE 🚨
Lionel Messi is a PSG player. Time for another Photoshop challenge. We're asking you to take the image on the right and give him a new t-shirt design. Show us what you can do. pic.twitter.com/DtDVB2jfbT
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) August 10, 2021
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.
Already picking up the basics in French… pic.twitter.com/dG1mBbKWdD
— Newell's Old Boys – English News (@Newells_en) August 10, 2021
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.
— Mike Whatmore (@MikeWhatmore) August 10, 2021
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
Give that man the ten thousand dollars https://t.co/A0cIUNFuCc
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) August 10, 2021
Bruce
A topless Steve Bruce with the legs of a flamingo. Perfect.
— Sam Jones (@samj612) August 10, 2021
Cricket
It had its doubters, but Lionel’s clearly a fan. Anything to take your mind of your old employers becoming an utter shitshow.
New format
New fan pic.twitter.com/MtVVzNDeWI— Sam Reddish (@SamReddish_) August 10, 2021
Inbetweeners
Bonus points for making the t-shirt pink.
On holiday isn’t he really? #Kitkingdom pic.twitter.com/ZLqnFfVTem
— 👑 Kitkingdom (@Kitkingdom83) August 10, 2021
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.
— Sean Clark (@Sean__Clark) August 10, 2021
Qatar
Very well played to Andrew Meddings. Sure PSG’s Qatari owners will be delighted with this one.
https://twitter.com/andrewmeddings/status/1425159211122626564
Well done, one and all.
