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Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time: Where is Messi?

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Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time

Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time? Who are the highest Goalscorers in the Spanish La Liga of all time? Is it Lionel Messi? Are these two fantastic players on the list? Well, let’s find out as we have prepared a list of the Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time.

The Spanish La Liga was formed as Spain’s top division league in 1929 since then Athletic Bilbao’s Telmo Zarra held the record of being the competition’s all-time top scorer until 2014. He was the top scorer for six seasons of the Spanish league between the years 1945 and 1953.

Top 10 La Liga Top Scorers 2019/20

Here are the current top scorers in La Liga 2019/20 season.

*As of 26 October 2019:

# Player Team Nationality Goals
1. Karim Benzema Real Madrid France 10
2. Gerard Moreno Villarreal Spain 8
 3. Lionel Messi Barcelona Argentina 8
 4. Loren Moron Real Betis Spain 8
5. Lucas Pérez Alavés Spain 7
 6. Luis Suarez Barcelona Uruguay 7
7. Daniel Parejo Valencia Spain 6
 8. Joselu Alavés Spain 6
 9. Maximiliano Gómez Valencia Uruguay 6
 10. Willian José Real Sociedad Brazil 6

All Time Highest Goal Scorer in La Liga

Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time - Where is Messi
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Who is the all time leading goal scorer in the Spanish La Liga? Let’s find out. Lionel Messi is the all time leading goal scorer with 427 goals in 460 appearances. The Argentine has only played for Barcelona in the league as it is where he kick started his career through the clubs youth ranks.

In second is rival Cristiano Ronaldo who left La Liga in 2018 and had managed to score 311 goals in 292 appearances for Real Madrid making him the second all time leading goal scorer in La Liga.

Cristiano Ronaldo has the best goal ratio among all the players on the list with a ratio of 1.896 per goal.

All time highest Goalscorers in Spanish La Liga

We have prepared a list with the Top 20 Highest La Liga Goalscorers of All Time. Here is the full list of the all time leading Goalscorers in La Liga. Enjoy!

Rank Player Years Goals Apps Ratio
1 Lionel Messi 2004– 427 460 0.92
2 Cristiano Ronaldo 2009–2018 311 292 1.07
3 Telmo Zarra 1940–1955 251 278 0.9
4 Hugo Sánchez 1981–1994 234 347 0.67
5 Raúl 1994–2010 228 550 0.41
6 Alfredo Di Stéfano 1953–1966 227 329 0.69
7 César Rodríguez 1939–1955 223 353 0.63
8 Quini 1970–1987 219 448 0.49
9 Pahiño 1943–1956 210 278 0.76
10 Edmundo Suárez 1939–1950 195 231 0.84
11 Santillana 1970–1988 186 461 0.4
12 David Villa 2003–2014 185 352 0.53
13 Juan Arza 1943–1959 182 349 0.52
14 Guillermo Gorostiza 1929–1945 178 256 0.7
15 Samuel Eto’o 1998–2008 162 280 0.58
16 Luis Aragonés 1960–1974 160 360 0.44
17 Karim Benzema 2009– 158 324 0.49
18 Aritz Aduriz 2002– 158 439 0.36
19 Ferenc Puskás 1958–1966 156 180 0.87
20 Julio Salinas 1982–2000 152 417 0.36

Goalscorers with most hat-tricks in Spanish La Liga

Rank Player Hat-tricks Last hat-trick
1 Lionel Messi 34 9 November 2019
Cristiano Ronaldo 18 March 2018
3 Telmo Zarra 23 15 March 1953
4 Alfredo di Stéfano 22 15 March 1964
5 Mundo 19 4 March 1951
6 César Rodríguez 15 19 October 1952
7 Isidro Lángara 13 15 December 1946
8 Ferenc Puskás 12 15 December 1963
9 László Kubala 11 19 March 1961
Pahiño 11 September 1955
Manuel Badenes 29 March 1958
12 Quini 10 7 October 1981
Luis Suárez 28 October 2018

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Is Messi relationship causing heartache for Griezmann at Barcelona?

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Is Messi relationship causing heartache for Griezmann at Barcelona?
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Antoine Griezmann has opened up on his relations in Barcelona with Lionel Messi and how his confidence is being affected.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund, Griezmann told UEFA.com: “I’m in the process of learning and understanding how my team-mates play as everything is new to me.

“I’m still trying to read the runs and off the ball movement from the likes of Luis Suarez, Leo Messi and Ousmane Dembele along with the midfielders. It’s my intention to get to grips with this as soon as possible so I can offer my all to the team but at times it’s tricky.

“At present when I get the ball I have a certain lack of confidence in when to pass or when to shoot on goal, this I’m sure is something that will change with the passing of time.”

“I’m pretty shy and sometimes have problems talking to others,” Griezmann said. “It’s rare that I strike up a conversation. Luis [Suarez], Leo and myself have had meals together and the relationship can only improve over time.”

On Messi, Griezmann added: “He’s the type of player that we’re not going to see again for at least 40 years and it’s a joy to watch him in action. It really is a privilege to play alongside him.”

SEE MORE: FC Barcelona Players Wages 2019 (Salaries Per Week List)

Paco Alcácer to miss Barcelona clash

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Paco Alcácer to miss Barcelona clash
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Paco Alcácer won’t be on the pitch against his former club on Wednesday in the Champions League. Due to a knee injury sustained over the weekend during the draw against Paderborn in Bundesliga.

The former Valencia striker just came back from an Achilles tendon problem which kept him out of playing for five games. Still his number under Swiss coach Lucien Favre are impressive. Alcácer has scored five goals in nine games this Bundesliga campaign.

A return to the Camp Nou will have to wait for Alcácer which spent two full season at the Spanish club before going on loan to Borussia Dortmund.

SEE ALSO: Dortmund warned to bring A-game versus Barcelona

Lionel Messi reveals he had a difficult start to life at Barcelona

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Lionel Messi reveals he had a difficult start to life at Barcelona
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Lionel Messi is arguably the world’s best player.

But he passed rivers and mountains to becoming one.

In a recent interview, Barcelona legend Lionel Messi revealed that his life at the club did not start as well as many fans may think it would have, given how he was already regarded as supremely talented while he used to play for his former team Newell’s Old Boys.

It is already well-known that Messi left Argentine side Newell’s Old Boys in 2001, relocating to Europe – a new continent – at the tender age of 13.

“I was in Barcelona for about 15 days and then I returned to Argentina. After a few months, they called me and I said yes, that I was willing to come. Let me come here and start my dream in Barcelona. It was a happiness for me and my family,” the 32-year-old said, while speaking to OTRO.

“I was looking forward to knowing if I was going to come here. The truth is that at that time I did not understand the great change I was going to be making. I was a boy. All I wanted was to come to Barcelona and play. I was not aware of the difficulty of changing and how hard it was going to be for me and my family.”

“At the start, the truth is that it was tough, it was hard. The most beautiful thing is to play and not being able to play was really difficult. In the middle, I went through injuries too. When I was able to play here after two, three or four months, I got injured in my first game and I was out for another month and a half.”

“They were hard times, but it never crossed my mind to go home. My brothers had gone to Argentina, my sister’s adaptation was the toughest of all, she was the smallest and it was hard for them, with school and everything. They decided that my mother would go to Argentina with her,” Messi explained, before concluding:

“I was alone, and they asked me what I wanted to do, if we stayed or left, that the decision was mine and that they would support me. I was always clear that I wanted to stay.”

Despite all the hardship, Messi stayed on – as you all know, the rest is history.

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10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players: Footballers to have played for both clubs

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10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players to have played for both clubs?

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players who have represented both Spanish giants?

Real Madrid and Barcelona are two clubs who have probably hated each other since the dawn of time.

They are not your regular rivals. There is intense hate. Imagine playing for both clubs. Here we will show you the 10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players to have played for both clubs!

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players: Numbers 10-7

10. Luis Figo

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players

Acclaimed for the most disputable intersection of the Barcelona-Madrid partition, Figo guaranteed his inheritance was well and genuinely discolored at the Nou Camp when he moved to the Spanish capital in a then-world-record £37.4million bargain in 2000.

He proceeded to win two La Liga titles and the Champions League in the white of Real, adding to the two class titles and Cup Winners’ Cup he had lifted with Barca.

Sick inclination from supporters stays right up ’til today, over 15 years after a fan propelled a pig’s head at him during his subsequent game back at the Nou Camp.

9. Bernd Schuster

One more of the players to have moved legitimately from Barcelona to Real Madrid, Schuster won one La Liga title during his eight years at the Nou Camp before lifting consecutive trophies during his two-season spell at the Bernabeu.

As though swapping Barca for Real wasn’t sufficient, he left the champions in 1990 to sign for their city rivals Atletico, going through three years there before coming back to Germany with Bayer Leverkusen.

8. Ronaldo

Ronaldo spent only a solitary season at Barcelona in the wake of joining from PSV in 1996, scoring a mind blowing 47 goals in 49 games to win the FIFA World Player of the Year grant and procure a then-world-record move to Inter Milan.

Following five years in Serie A he came back to Spain with Real Madrid, proceeding to win two La Liga titles however neglecting to get his hands on the Champions League trophy.

7. Julen Lopetegui

The former boss of Spain’s national team played for three years for Real Madrid in the wake of creating with the club’s Castilla B group as a youth.

After a loan spell at Las Palmas and three years at Logrones, he moved to the Nou Camp and proceeded to play for Barca only multiple times somewhere in the range of 1994 and 1997.

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players: Numbers 6-3

6. Robert Prosinecki

Signed from Red Star Belgrade in 1997, Prosinecki played multiple times in all rivalries for Real Madrid before proceeding onward to Spanish side Oviedo for a solitary season.

His superior performances prompted a change to Barcelona, however he again stayed for only one year – and 23 games – before leaving for Sevilla.

5. Javier Saviola

Saviola settled in well at Barcelona in the wake of joining from River Plate in 2001, showing up in every one of his initial three seasons and scoring an aggregate of 44 La Liga goals.

Be that as it may, in the wake of dropping down the hierarchy and investing energy in credit at Monaco and Sevilla, he made an unexpected move to Real in 2001. Two years and 29 appearances later, he was leaving for Benfica.

4. Gheorghe Hagi 

Generally viewed as Romania’s most prominent ever player, Hagi made the tremendous move from Steaua Bucharest to Real Madrid in 1990 and went through two years at the Bernabeu with simply the Spanish Super Cup to appear for his endeavors.

Following two years in Italy with Brescia, he came back to Spain with Barca and spent another two seasons in La Liga before a trophy-loaded spell in Turkey with Galatasaray.

3. Samuel Eto’o

You could be pardoned for overlooking that Eto’o started his pro career with Real Madrid, where he showed up and was sent on loan multiple times.

Nonetheless, it was during his spell at Mallorca that he truly grabbed the attention and earned a move to Barcelona in 2004.

Five years, eight trophies and 130 goals later, he withdrew for Inter Milan as a firm fans’ most loved at the Nou Camp.

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players : Number 2

2. Luis Enrique

The main man on our rundown to have moved straightforwardly from Real Madrid to Barcelona, Enrique has likewise experienced El Clasico as an administrator, having been responsible for the Nou Camp encounters somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2017.

He made his name as a player at the Bernabeu, showing up before moving to Barca on a free move in 1996.

He would proceed to win seven trophies in eight years before hanging up his boots in 2004 and moving into training.

10 Barcelona-Real Madrid players : Number 1

1. Michael Laudrup

Another player to have gone straightforwardly from Barca to Real, Laudrup did the switch in 1994 following five years and four La Liga titles at the Nou Camp.

He carried his brilliant touch to the Bernabeu by helping Madrid win the title in his first season, yet he remained for only one more before making a rewarding move to Japanese side Vissel Kobe.

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Suarez expands on explosive Pique comments

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Suarez expands on explosive Pique comments
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Barcelona defender Pique caused outrage in Catalonia last month. 

He said that the players were ready to take pay cuts to adjust Neymar back at Barcelona.

However, the board failed to oblige. Pique said last month: “We didn’t stump up money.

“What we said to the president was whether we could change our contracts because we knew there was a Financial Fair Play issue… so we said to the president, rather than earn something in year one, we could earn it in year two or three or four.”

However, Suarez has calmed down the situation by saying Pique did not know what he was saying.

“When Geri speaks, sometimes you have to take everything with tweezers,” Uruguayan Suarez told Sport.

“He has a lot of work and a lot of experience in making statements. In this case he knows and is aware that the players were totally out in the case of Ney.

“We were willing to welcome him or any player who wants to come, but always oblivious to the case.”

Suarez said: “[His integration has been] spectacular, sometimes things are misunderstood. Both Leo and I and Geri himself welcomed him a year earlier, said he was a great player and was one of the best in the world.

“He came from being world champion and we already praised him. Then we didn’t know what was going to happen to him, we weren’t sure he was coming this year.

“We treat him as one more. It is also true that some have more affinity with some partners than others; in his case he gets along very well with the French players.”

See More: Barcelona transfer targets list 2020: possible January transfer targets 2020!

Dortmund warned to bring A-game versus Barcelona

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Dortmund chief Zorc and club CEO Watzke have sent across a strong message to the German club Dortmund.

Borussia Dortmund were humiliated against Bayern Munich last weekend and the club has now been warned to either turn up at Barcelona with their A-game.

“Obviously the topic will be discussed publicly because our situation is more than unsatisfactory,” Zorc told Funke Sport.

“Of course we will analyse that very intensively. But we are going to the match in Barcelona with Lucien Favre and we expect to see a significant increase in performance there.

“We need a performance. We finally need a good performance on the pitch so you can look forward.”

Watzke had kind but dangerous words for the coach and a stern warning for the players.

“Dear Lucien, you still have our trust,” Watzke said at the club’s AGM. “But in the end football is always defined by results.

“We all hope you and the team are able to turn this around. You have all the support we can give you.”

Directing a stern message towards the club’s players, he added: “Pull yourselves together and play like it is expected from Borussia Dortmund. You as a team must know that only words are not enough.

“It is your duty to let them be followed by actions.”

Will they be able to overpower the mighty Barcelona?

See More: FC Barcelona Players Wages 2019 (Salaries Per Week List)

Barcelona eye summer move for Manchester United star Marcus Rashford

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The La Liga giants look to replace Luis Suarez ahead of the upcoming season.

As a result they are considering a summer move for Manchester United ace Marcus Rashford.

It is Mundo Deportivo who reports that Barcelona are interested in signing Marcus Rashford, although it remains unclear as to whether his current side, Manchester United, is keen to let him leave.

Rashford joined Manchester United in 2005 as a youth-level player, at just eight years of age. A decade later, he was promoted to the senior team and since then, he has scored 54 goals and provided 29 assists in 187 appearances for the club, across various competitions. In the ongoing 2019-20 season, he has recorded nine goals and three assists in just 17 matches for United, and is also their top-scorer for the season right now.

Meanwhile, at Barcelona, Luis Suarez has encouraged the club to find a new striker to replace him, as he is unsure of his future with them. “There will come a time when my age will not allow me to live up to what Barcelona needs to compete,” Suarez was quoted as saying by Ovacion, an Uruguayan publication.

“But as long as I can, as long as I have the strength, giving me competition is much better. That they are looking for or want to bring another number nine is nothing strange, it is the reality of football,” he added further, before concluding:

“It will be better for me and better for the club, because it will feed competition, and it will be better for the future because the club can prepare a player with the help of all the great players at Barcelona.”

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Valverde happy with the win

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Barcelona struggled to yet another win against Leganes last night.

The Catalan club looked listless as they were yet again about to lose to a lowly Leganes side. It was once again some Messi magic and some individual magic which saw them throught.

A late winner from Arturo Vidal was crucial for the Barca contingent. It is not typical of the Barcelona we have seen over the last decade to have to scrape through matches and expect to win from a random goal but that is what Valverde’s side has been doing. 

Valverde however, said he was very happy with the way the club won.

“It’s [an] extremely important [win] because we found ourselves behind and the game was going away from us. The pitch was terrible, it was very windy and they sat deep to defend.

“I don’t want that to sound like an excuse because we struggled. By pushing hard and going in search of openings through set-pieces we were able to win. But it was very tough. I know our game wasn’t brilliant but we are happy with the result.”

Do you think Valverde can turn it around?

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Barcelona eyes Bayern Munich defender Joshua Kimmich

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The Blaugrana are looking to shake up their squad next season.

They have set their eyes on Bayern Munich’s Kimmich.

Barcelona is preparing for next season and it has several players on its wish list. The La Liga leader is enjoying a decent current campaign, but it already has one eye on 2020/21. 

On Friday, Mundo Deportivo suggested the Camp Nou board have identified the targets they would like to sign a new candidate for the right back position in Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich.

Barca attempted to sign versatile Bayern and Austria international David Alaba last summer but were rebuffed but are confident that their primary target, Germany defender Kimmich, can be persuaded to trade the Bundesliga for La Liga.

Kimmich is under contract until 2023 with the Bavarian giants and per the report, they have no intention of letting him go, unless the player himself demands it. If Barcelona fail to land the Byaern defender, they will turn their attention to 23-year-old Klostermann, who has broken into the senior Germany side this year and whose contract at Leipzig expires in 2021.

The Blaugrana is also targeting Inter Milan’s hit-man Lautaro Martrinez for the next season.

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