IT WAS NOT LIONEL MESSI THAT WOKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT BARCELONA, BUT HIM.

  People are still thinking that the arrival of Lionel Messi into the Barcelona team awoke this sleeping giant Barcelona.

 But the real person to awake Barcelona , was Samuel Eto'o and Ronaldhino,with Thierry Henry as well.

These three strikers in 2005/2006 scored  a total of a 100, hundred goals between the three of them.

It was later on that Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez scored a total of 120, one hundred and twenty goals in one season.