Setién’s harsh words to Messi in Balaídos: “If you don’t like it, there you have the door” | sports

A free-kick from Iago Aspas two minutes from the end of the game, gave Celta a draw in extremis against Barça at Balaídos last season. Barça left two very important points for the league in Vigo, and that result caused a storm in the locker room.

After the game, as reported by Cadena SER, there was a monumental row between the players and the Barça coaching staff. Quique Setién launched several reproaches to the players and some, like Leo Messi, they felt attacked and offended by the trainedr.

Sources close to the dressing room, say that Messi, faced with what he considered a lack of respect for the dressing room, raised his voice, reproached the coach for his words and asked him respect for a group of players that they had won it all. Setién, very angry, reacted by telling the captain of Barça: “If you don’t like what I say, there you have the door”.

Messi’s reaction, according to the sources consulted, was look at the coach and smile compassionately, aware that Setién’s stage at Barça had an expiration date.

An episode that explains the complicated relationship that existed between Setién and the heavyweights of the dressing room, who considered that the coach lacked tact and often disrespected his players.

Just as Koeman is direct, he goes face, but the players think it’s respectfulAccording to sources close to the dressing room, Setién often exceeded his words and expressions.

“There are players who are not easy to manage, like Messi”

Setién broke his silence since he was fired from Barcelona in a talk with former Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque published by the newspaper El País, where he reviews his time at the Barça club and admits that “there are players who are not easy to manage, including Messi.”