The last day in Barcelona left the door open for the culé’s privacy. Although what could be seen far was from the harmonious team, but quite the opposite. In the framework of the 2-2 draw with Celta de Vigo, the cameras captured Lionel Messi ignoring indications from Eder Sarabia, assistant to the head coach. Situation that generated, according to the Spanish press, a strong discussion between members of the squad and part of the coaching staff of Quique Setién.
This situation of discord was warned by the program El Partidazo (Movistar +), which took the exact moment in Sarabia approached Messi, while the game was stopped so that the soccer players were hydrated, but the Argentine soccer player snubbed the assistant coach in the two approaches.
So supposedly uncomfortable was this contempt, that the Spanish press, both in Madrid and Barcelona, assures that in the Balaídos locker room the screams of various leaders of the squad and some of the assistants of Setién were heard. Apparently, the relationship between players and coaching staff has been broken for a long time.
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And some of the signs of that distance were noticed when the match against Celta ended, Luis Suárez, author of the two goals for Barcelona, and the Uruguayan were consulted. On the playing field, the Uruguayan left a phrase that allowed him to understand how things are: “What about visitors? There are coaches for something.”
So important was this situation that everything revolved around this controversy at Quique Setien’s press conference this morning. The coach almost focused on the internal health of his group and came out of each response with the message that these are normal things that happen on each campus: “We are all giving up a part of ourselves for the good of the team. Not everything that you would like you can carry out. I cannot tell an offensive winger not to go beyond the middle of the field. They are a team, and they know they have to be current as such. And maybe you have to sacrifice personal things for the benefit of the team. The reality is that this situation is new, and I am in a period where I find out a lot of things and you tend to do what you want to do. It also happened to me in Las Palmas and Seville. They are processes, time put everyone in their place. “
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[R] SETIÉN’S ‘MESSAGES’: “I was not an easy player either.” “We all have to give in.” “Time puts everyone in their place.” “Sometimes the results do not depend on me” “There are players who they have a special hierarchy “pic.twitter.com/rCLByfH2Le&- El Chiringuito TV (@elchiringuitotv) June 29, 2020
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And in the middle of the press conference, it was logical that they asked him what the cameras had taken for: Messi’s defiance of his assistant. Setién tried to get off the subject without maximizing the situation: “Nothing especially happened, it was an indication and that’s it. I don’t know what you want me to say.” The situation does not seem easy, especially considering that this Tuesday Barcelona will face Atlético de Madrid and that now the La Liga title is not in the hands of Lionel Messi and company, but the walk of Real Madrid puts him within easy reach of the crown of Spain.
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