Robert Lewandowski says he'd welcome Lionel Messi returning to Barcelona.

The PSG attacker has been linked with a return to Barca next summer.

Lewandowski told Marca: "Messi is absolutely brilliant with the amazing passes he plays to the striker.

"If you think about Messi, he has this brilliant connection with strikers. He knows how to put the ball into the box, between the lines... he's the best in the world at that. I don't know what's going on right now, but for a striker it would be a dream to play with Lionel Messi for sure.

"If look at football for the past 10/15 years, the main two figures have been Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and, in the end, if you think about who deserves to win this World Cup, these two names always pop up. They are legends.

"But on the flip side, this is football and you can never say what is going to happen because it's a dramatic and unpredictable game. But in Messi's case, it's impossible for his achievements to be replicated as his amazing story continues. Now he's dreaming to win the world cup. For him, that's the big challenge. He wants to now win the World Cup with Argentina, but this is a World Cup and you can never know what is going to happen."