The news of the burofax sent by Lionel Messi to the managerial board of the FC Barcelona, that for then chaired Josep Maria Bartomeu, turned into the bomb of the past summer, what caused an authentic novel in the breast of the institution. However, the situation would be suffocated to time.
Once culminated the season, the Argentinian manifested his intention to abandon the club. Nevertheless, the president remitted to the clause that established a date for his possible season, that for then already had happened. Recently, through the podcast Records, has gone out to the light that the problems between the captain and Bartomeu already came from 2017.
In accordance with the radial space, the Argentinian would have sent a message to the director shortly before that the burofax went out to the light: "Already you are filtering. Already you are me fucking again, presi". From then, the father and agent of the player, Jorge Messi, did not sustain more conversations with Bartomeu.
Bartomeu would have used the means to do remain badly to Messi
The Barcelona captain also showed his discontent by the divulging of the conversation that sustained with Ronald Koeman, in which it declared that it saw more was that inside the FC Barcelona. To trial of the player, the leak came from of the presidency, what finished for worsening the relations.
Neither it was the first time that the player wanted to leave of the Barça. Already in 2016, his problems with Inland revenue did it replantearse his continuity in the Catalan club, by what carried out meetings in Miami between the ex president and the father of Messi. Another episode of hostility took place in 2019 after the elimination in Anfield.
For then, the Argentinian did not have problems in that it continued Valverde like technician, but interested him the signings. It was then when it consulted to Bartomeu on the incorporation of Griezmann, that to the few days announced of official way, what carried to Messi to catalog to Bartomeu like a "compulsive liar".