Lionel Messi and his father, Jorge, are both fed up with Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
Since Messi’s departure from the Camp Nou last summer, Laporta has been continually talking about him, about the possibility of him coming to Barcelona, and even saying that the salary offered by Paris Saint-Germain was the cause for his departure.
This week, Barcelona’s president stated that if Messi wanted to return to the club in the future, he would have to do so for free.
Messi is sick of constantly being on the president’s mind. The Argentine forward has always been respectful of the club and Laporta in the few times he has spoken to the media. He warned the president in one of his first interviews that he didn’t like his remarks.
“No one asked me to play for free, but I think the president’s statements are inappropriate,” Messi stated in an interview with Sport.
Barcelona’s president said last week that if Messi wanted to return to the club in the future, he would have to do so for free.
“They make me angry because I don’t think he needs to say that. It’s like letting go of the ball and not accepting responsibility for the consequences.
This causes people to think or produces a sense of doubt in their minds, which I believe I don’t deserve.”
Lionel Messi and Joan Laporta last season, when the Argentine was still playing for Barcelona
Jorge Messi Called Laporta
Laporta brings up the Argentine whenever he gets the chance. And Messi isn’t happy about it. Neither does his father, who, according to Spanish journalist Manu Carreno and MARCA, called the president a few days ago to tell him to stop talking about his son.
Jorge Messi phoned Laporta to ask him to stop discussing his son in every interview, as they try to close that chapter.
One of the things that bothers Messi the most is that the door is always left open for his return, even if it is currently impossible and appears to be impossible in the future as long as Laporta is president, because their relationship is strained.
When Messi left Barcelona, he was unhappy and felt cheated by Laporta, who kept promising him that he intended to renew his contract during the election campaign and the first few months of his mandate.
Everything appeared to be in place until Laporta informed Messi that he needed to leave just before they put pen to paper. It was a setback for the Argentine, who had expected to remain in Catalonia.
Rather than letting the wound heal, Laporta has continued to bring up Messi in every interview since then. And he’s given quite a few.
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