Posted on November 2, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. by Th.B.
While he opened the door to a return to FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi would not have digested his departure and the remarks of his former president Joan Laporta towards him. The new PSG attacking star also reportedly disliked Gerard Pique's stance on the issue of his farewell and the overall lack of support in the Blaugrana dressing room.
On August 5, one day after his return from Ibiza vacation where he had met his future teammates at PSG Leandro Paredes , Neymar , Angel Di Maria or even Marco Verratti , FC Barcelona formalized the departure of Lionel Messi . The reason ? The inability of the club to assume a salary even divided by two of the six-fold Golden Ball, Barça going through a more than delicate financial patch. Subsequently, Joan Laporta has let the press know that he expects at a stage of negotiations that Lionel Messi will agree to play for free for his favorite club, FC Barcelona. A message that was not appreciated at all by the former Barça captain and current number 30 of PSG . “The truth is, as I explained on the way out, I did everything I could to stay, at no time was I asked to play for free. I was asked to reduce my salary by fifty percent and I did so without any problem. We were able to help the club more. It was my wish and that of my family to stay in Barcelona. No one has asked me to play for free but at the same time it seems to me that the words the president has spoken are irrelevant. They hurt me because I think he doesn't need to say that ”. Lionel Messi told SPORT on Monday. And the scars would not have healed by now…
After Laporta, Messi would have been hurt by the attitude of his ex-teammates at Barça and Pique!
This is indeed the information that Lluís Mascaró has decided to communicate during a video interview with La Porteria. Journalist having met Lionel Messi in Paris as part of the said interview for SPORT, Mascaró claimed to have exchanged with a Lionel Messi deeply hurt by the attitude of Joan Laporta and the remarks made with regard to the new offensive star of PSG regarding the option to play for free for FC Barcelona . In addition, the last Ballon D'or to date would have absolutely not understood and seen coming his departure from Barça which was for him a huge surprise. Relations between President Joan Laporta and Messi would have been considerably deteriorated by this episode and Lionel Messi would not only have a dispute with the boss of FC Barcelona .
At least that's what Lluís Mascaró said during his visit to Radioestado Noche in recent hours Besides Laporta , Messi would have been affected by the lack of general support from the locker room. “Messi is injured by some teammates who, according to him, did not support him enough”. In addition, the supposed declaration of Gerard Piqué , vice-captain of Sergio Busquets , would not have passed at all. at Lionel Messi . “Messi knows that Pique told the president that if Messi leaves nothing would happen.” Everything would not be so rosy in Barcelona and not everyone would regret the departure of Lionel Messi …