Lionel Messi has launched another vicious attack against the Barcelona board, accusing him of disrespecting Luis Suarez and effectively kicking him out of the club.
Suarez, 33, said he wanted to stay at Barca this season, even if he wanted to take on a backup role, but was eventually told by new coach Ronald Komen that it was not part of his plan and agreed to leave.
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Barca announced on Wednesday that they had agreed on a deal to move him to La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid, to remove Messi’s best friend from the process’s dressing room and to separate his star player.
“It would be unfamiliar to see you in another shirt and even play against you,” Messi wrote on Instagram on Friday, a day after bidding farewell to Suarez at an event at Camp Nou.
“You deserved a departure for who you are: one of the most important players in the club’s history, winning things as part of a group and individually. Not to kick you as they did. But the truth is nothing surprises me. Now. “
Messi’s comments are further evidence of a rift between him and President Josep Maria Bartomeu, which prompted him to try to leave the club in August.
Messi decided to stay and said he believed his club’s legal team did not want to take the matter to court over his clause in his agreement that he could be granted free leave.
However, many of Messi’s close associates have joined the club, including Suarez and Arturo Vidal.
Macy added on Instagram, “How hard it will be to share with you every day, both on and off the pitch.”
“We will miss you so much. So many years, so many comrades [a South American caffeine-based drink], Dinner … a lot of things that will never be forgotten, every day together. I wish you well in this new challenge. “
Nesmar, who played with Messi and Suarez in Barcelona for three seasons and won the trouble with them in 2014-15, commented on the post: “The way they do things is incredible.”
Messi first broadcast his complaints to club executives when he went to Instagram in February to call former sports director Eric Abidal, who blamed the players for the sacking of former coach Ernesto Valverde.
During the lockdown due to the Covid-19 epidemic, Messi and his teammates complained of leaks at the club as they negotiated pay cuts to help Barca cope with the effects of the epidemic.
Finally, after the departure engineer failed this summer, Messi criticized Bartomeu and the board in an interview with Goal earlier this month, when he announced that he would stay at Camp Nou until the end of his current contract at least until 2021.
The Argentine international accused Bartomeu of lying to him and said it had been many years since the club had a proper project, adding that “things are stirring and making holes.”
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