Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox This is around the time in a transfer window where you see free agent XIs popping up on Twitter, populated by players you'd forgotten about or who have lost their way but are now available for nothing and suddenly look quite tempting.
For anybody curating a list of those players available this summer after contracts across Europe came to an end on Wednesday, there is only one place to start, with a front three of Andy Carroll, Josh King and, err, Lionel Messi.
A year after he almost left Barcelona Messi has now seen his contract with the Blaugrana come to an end, although unusually the mood music was much more convincing 12 months ago when the Argentine was
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