• Interview.Messi: "I don't know if the club wanted or not, but Neymar really wanted to come"

The Football Club Barcelona has a spokesman who is usually responsible for public explanations when the grounds of the Camp Nou tremble. His name is Josep Vives. This time the executive of his best repertoire had to go hand-in-hand, with references to Churchill and Aristotle included, to calm some waters that went down the most troubled after the interview with Leo Messi published today by the newspaper Sport . A talk in which the Barça club franchise player, free to go at zero cost from the end of this season, introduced a series of warnings with clear references to the entity's foremen. "This is my house and I don't want to leave, but I want to win." Or, especially, his position before the summertime sainete by the Neymar negotiations: « Honestly, I don't know if Barça did everything possible for his return ».

Vives, who had come to the press room of the Camp Nou to present that semiannual survey (Observatori Blaugrana) in which the club values ​​the degree of satisfaction of the members before their government work (an average score of 7.3 out of 10 ), was used thoroughly in its efforts to placate all controversy. Above all, when a journalist asked him if he saw in Messi's statements a pulse to the club. "Not at all. I don't see any pulse at all. This is a positive interview, with very respectful opinions. We have to be proud to have players who express themselves this way. If we spend the energy in throwing internal pulses ... The pulse must be with our adversaries . Although the interpretations are free, ”the Barcelona spokesman justified.

But Vives had to continue, between massaging the best player in the history of Barcelona with the denial of any kind of distrust between the player and the Bartomeu board. « There is no crack between Messi and the club . We would have to take the entire statements. If we cut them, they lead us to equivocation. When he refers to Neymar, he was not in negotiation. It's natural. He also says that the PSG made it very difficult. The club did its best to sign Neymar, but the reality is that it could not be produced. There is no contempt or lack of trust ».

Even when Vives was questioned about Messi's demand for a winning sports project, the spokesman tried to take the positive side: «What Messi expresses is what everyone thinks. It is a message of ambition and very exciting. A very natural desire. That is why the club reinforces its staff every year, which is better than that of the previous year ».

Leo Messi, also goes down against Valencia and that four months ago you did not wear the Barca shirt, and in any case a government that has no choice but to go with lead feet.

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