After Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Ivan Rakitic fired their side to a 3-0 victory over Granada on Saturday, former Barcelona star Carles Rexach has hit out at Messi, claiming that the Argentine ate “too many pizzas last season”.

The 2013-14 campaign was an underwhelming one for the Argentine as he tallied his lowest number of goals since 2008-09 and Barca finished the campaign without a major trophy.

Rexach, who played for the Blaugrana from 1967-1981 and later coached the club, believes the attacker gained weight last year because he was eating too many pizzas.

“Before he would eat at the club and then rest afterwards, but it seems to me that last year Messi ate more pizzas than he wanted or needed,” Rexach told Regio7.