Complex sentence: Cocu's 205 La Liga matches and 291 total appearances were Barcelona records for a foreign player when he left; both records remained until Lionel Messi surpassed them in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Split into simpler sentences: Cocu's 205 La Liga matches and 291 total appearances were Barcelona records for a foreign player when he left. Both records remained until Lionel Messi surpassed them in 2011 and 2012 respectively.