Urgent .. Messi did not attend the Barcelona training center
Argentine star Lionel Messi, who on Tuesday submitted a request to leave Barcelona from the Spanish administration a year before the end of his contract, was not present today, Sunday, at the Catalan club's training center, where he and his colleagues are supposed to undergo a "Covid-19" examination, according to what an AFP correspondent noted Present in place.
Unlike all the players and technical and medical staff working in the team who came to the exercise center on Sunday morning to conduct a corona virus test in preparation for the resumption of exercises tomorrow, Monday, Messi was absent, according to an AFP correspondent, although the scheduled time for him to take the test was at 10 o'clock, 15 local time according to Spanish media.
Even players like Uruguayan Luis Suarez and Chilean Arturo Vidal, who were informed by the new Dutch coach Ronald Koeman that they will not be with the team next season, came to Juan Gamper Sports City for a "Covid-19" test.
It is certain that Messi's absence will spark his battle with the club's management, which insists that his desire to terminate his contract will not be met a year before his end.
The Barcelona administration finds itself under terrible pressure, amid a demand to withdraw confidence from it after the earthquake caused by the best player in the world six times.
The Catalan club's management was in an already unenviable position even before the Messi earthquake due to the many criticisms it had received after a disastrous season punctuated by serial scandals (Barcelona Gate, the failure to contract with Xavi to oversee the team, the reduction of players' salaries during the Covid-19 epidemic ...) and the results A disappointing sport with the team leaving the domestic and continental seasons empty-handed, the last of its seasons, the historic defeat at the hands of Bayern Munich (2-8) in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Messi's absence today, Sunday, was predicted by the Catalan newspaper "Mundo Deportivo" with its headline in today's issue: "He will not attend", accompanied by a picture of the Argentine star alone in the empty "Camp Nou" stadium.
And the Spanish newspapers agreed that Messi will go to the battle to the end with the club's management, which believes that the Argentine star does not have the right to use the clause in his contract that allows him to leave, because the deadline for using this clause was in June.
And according to what the Argentine sports newspaper "Ole" reported this week, Messi did not like the tone of the new coach Coman during their first interview last Thursday, when the latter told him that "the privileges he enjoyed in the dressing rooms have ended, and everything must be done for The team. I will not be flexible. "
"Ole" reported that Messi feels that he is targeted, and this speech, along with the way in which Coman told the striker and close friend Suarez that he would not rely on him in the next season, led to an increase in intense desires for the departure of the best player from the Catalan home.