Chronicle.Messi welcomes Griezmann in a Barcelona with a headwind
Griezmann: "Before they did not enter, now things are going well and we have to continue like this"
Leo Messi
still has no idea what will happen to him next summer, which is when his contract with Barcelona concludes.
And with his happy family in Castelldefels, he is not in too much of a hurry to solve an unknown that is increasingly troubling him less.
The main reason why the Argentine tried to end his career as a Barça player, beyond Bartomeu's "lies", was the suffocation caused by the constant defeat.
The decrepitude of both the project and the club.
Although the entity continues without an elected president, and the margin to obtain guarantee reinforcements in the next winter market is nil, Messi, as he did so many times, is adapting to a new sports life that is no longer so uncomfortable.
At 33 years old, and when it is a decade since that Ballon d'Or that he raised next to
Andrés Iniesta
and
Xavi Hernández
, the Rosario claim that the time has not yet come to live from the past.
Nor of letting go in the elephant graveyard of Major League Soccer.
Sources from the Barcelona dressing room point out that Messi, cyclically, has known how to adapt to both cycle changes and the departure of teammates who earned his trust.
He did it in that newly minted Argentine team of
Scaloni
with which he intends to face with guarantees what should be his last World Cup, that of Qatar in 2022. And he tries to achieve something similar in Barcelona once the mourning for the departure of
Luis Suárez
, his emotional crutch.
The employee
Pepe Costa
and the soccer player
Jordi Alba
are perhaps his best vital allies.
But Messi, after a first stretch of the season in which he found himself out of place and surrounded by players who were either unknown to him or did not interpret his game, has ended up finding answers in the solutions proposed by
Ronald Koeman
.
The same technician who took responsibility for firing Suárez with a brief phone call, but whom he respects both for his leadership skills and for his determination to offer him the best possible habitat on the field.
Pedri's mentor
From the dressing room, and despite the fact that the legend always spoke otherwise, it is insisted that Messi always tried to facilitate coexistence with the young footballers of the squad.
Although none has impacted him as sportingly as
Pedri
.
Messi, in his beginnings in the first team with Barcelona, had
Ronaldinho
as a mentor.
Now it is he who tries to facilitate the growth of the 18-year-old playmaker.
With Pedri there are no reproaches, fail or hit -
Sergiño Dest
did get a small fight in Granada for taking a
throw-
in badly - but gratitude and expressions of affection.
Although Koeman, we said, has facilitated the development of new connections around Messi.
Once parked that 4-2-3-1 with which the Dutch coach seemed like he would go to the end, Koeman is on his way to solving the great tactical puzzle.
It was enough for him to look back.
His 4-3-3, in any case, is not entirely academic, but it is one of the most effective in opening new paths for Rosario.
Messi has left the right wing to go at ease on the offensive front.
He even leans as far as he can to the left side to maximize his association with Pedri, who is the one who works indoors with
De Jong
.
Dembélé
, for whom Messi always had special affection, and
Griezmann
, finally revitalized, complete the puzzle.
One overflows.
The other is associated and finishes.
In the defensive phase, both approach the lime and release Messi from any defensive effort.
In the offensive phase, they release the banks, go inwards and draw an inner triangle in which the two Frenchmen, as if they were a lifelong pair of strikers, are the ones who receive the support of the
ten
as playmaker.
The Barcelona captain, who started the year denying in the Camp Nou stands in the draw against Eibar, has led his team in this streak of three consecutive victories, the best of the season.
In Huesca he assisted De Jong, and between San Mamés and Los Cármenes he amassed four goals (92 doubles in the League, 130 in total) that put him at the top of the Pichichi with 11 goals (14 in all competitions).
He has already scored ten or more goals in 15 seasons in a row.
Messi, who asked Koeman for the change in Granada when he sensed some discomfort, has no intention of letting himself be carried away.
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