Lionel Messi with a new boot against Josep Maria Bartomeu

Of: Anton Johansson

Published: December 27, 2020 at 11:33 p.m.
Updated: December 28, 2020 at 12:04 a.m.

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Lionel Messi’s relationship with the former president of Barcelona, ​​Josep Maria Bartomeu, is, to say the least, icy.

The Argentine says more details will be released in the future.

– He cheated on me several times and for many years, he says in an interview with the television channel La Sexta.

He has broken into Lionel Messi 2020.

The Argentine has openly wanted to leave Barcelona and ended in a conflict with the club’s president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, who has refused to comply with Messi’s wish to leave the club.

At the end of October Bartomeu also resigned, along with the club’s board.

Cheated

Messi has been, and is, relatively secretive about his relationship with Bartomeu. But that it is frozen is not to be missed.

In the interview with the television channel La Sexta, which Spanish AS has printed, he is asked if he felt betrayed by Bartomeu.

– I’d rather not comment on it now. It will come out in the future but there were many things, he says.

But he admits he’s gone astray.

– He cheated on me several times and for many years, he says.

“Crazy about Suárez”

In the same interview, he also directs a new volley of how Bartomeu and the club’s management acted against Luis Suárez. The Uruguayan, a close friend of Messi, went to Atlético de Madrid this summer.

– What happened to Suárez at Atléti was … crazy. He went free, and the rest of his contract he paid and he went to a team that is a rival for us. Incredible, says Messi.

Published: December 27, 2020 at 11:33 p.m.

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