Messi voted as Barcelona's best player this season, aehead of ter Stegen, Rakitic and Iniesta LaLiga - Barcelona 40,000 votes cast

In a poll to find the best Barcelona player in 2017/18, Lionel Messi came out on top.

More than 40,000 fans cast their votes with scores split into 'outstanding', 'good', 'okay','disappointing' and 'terrible'.

Those who scooped the most 'outstanding' scores were the Argentinian (91 percent), followed by Ter Stegen (76 percent) and Andres Iniesta (73 percent). Rakitic then followed with 60 percent and Jordi Alba earned the highest score with 52 percent of his votes.

Achieving the bulk of their scores in 'good' were Sergi Roberto and Phillipe Coutinho (52 percent), Paulinho (51 percent), Gerard Pique (49 percent), Samuel Umtiti (48 percent), Sergio Busquets (46 percent), Denis Suarez and Luis Suarez (both 44 percent), as well as Nelson Semedo (36 percent).

Aleix Vidal was among those given a 44 percent rating of 'okay', ahead of Yerry Minas's 42 percent and Lucas Digne's 37 percent in the middle rating.

Only three players were handed a 'disappointing' score by the fans, with that rating the highest for Gerard Deulofeu (67 percent), Andre Gomes (59 percent) and for Ousmane Dembele (31 percent).