For Messi .. Will the captaincy cause another storm in Barcelona?

After the calm conditions in Barcelona after the announcement of the Argentine, Lionel Messi, captain of the Catalan team, that he would remain at the Camp Nou until the end of his contract (which ends in June 2021), doubts surround another crisis that may rekindle the atmosphere between the ranks of the blaugrana.

Messi returned to Barcelona training sessions and participated in the team’s training sessions in preparation for the start of the new football season scheduled for September 11, while the Blaugrana will play their first game on the 27th of this month against Villarreal in the third La Liga matchday.

Some Spanish reports indicated that the move of the new Barça coach, Ronald Koeman, is to determine who will take the captaincy this season, which may trigger another crisis within the walls of the Camp Nou.

The role of the team captain is to become the link between the players and the club’s management beyond their role on the pitch, and during the last season, the Barcelona captaincy was organized as follows: Lionel Messi, Gerard Piqué , Sergio Busquets and Sergi Roberto.

But the question that arises now is whether Messi will assume the leadership role and become the nexus between the players and the club’s management, after the severe differences between them and the frank criticism of Messi to Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the Catalan club .

When Messi announced that he had withdrawn his decision to leave Barcelona in the current Mercato, the Argentine player came out and criticized Bartomeo’s management, as he confirmed that he was a man who did not respect his promise (see more details)

The 33-year-old was involved in more than one crisis during the past season due to the management of the club, and was forced to talk about some problems, as happened in his crisis with Eric Abidal, the former sports director of the club, also the crisis of pay cuts in the wake of the Corona pandemic when the news leaked. He accuses the players of refusing to cut wages.

One of the options available to Koman at the moment is to leave the captaincy ranking as happened last season.

Another option is for the Dutch coach to choose the order of the players in terms of leadership, and in the event that Messi is excluded or classified late, another storm is expected to emerge in the Catalan team.

The third option, which is that Koeman leaves it to the choice of the players in the dressing room, a solution with which the Dutch coach will be able to measure the reaction of the players to Messi’s recent behavior and whether it affected his popularity among them.

Messi can solve the crisis before it begins, and will resign as captain so as not to deal with the club’s leadership and stop communicating with Bartomeu.