A French magazine angered Barcelona over a "provocative cover" by Lionel Messi
Spanish media confirmed yesterday that many officials in the interim administration of Barcelona, as well as the technical staff led by the Dutch coach Ronald Koeman, expressed their anger over the recent cover of the French sports magazine France Football, which shows Lionel Messi, the star of the Catalan team in a Paris Saint-Germain shirt, under a broad title ( Messi ... the secret card of Saint Germain), in support of the effort of the French team wishing to sign a contract with the "Flea" next summer.
"Sport" and "Mundo Deportivo" newspapers reported that the cover greatly provoked Barcelona, and even Lionel Messi, which made him finally speak of him being tired of the constant talk about his move to Saint-Germain weeks ago.
Messi's contract expires next summer, and he will become a free player, and he has been strongly linked to the move to Saint-Germain, especially in light of the many statements from the management of the French club and Argentine coach Pocottino, and Messi’s citizen also, Di Maria, where everyone welcomes his arrival.
Koeman had said that "what the French club and the media close to it are doing is disrespectful and unworthy of relations between the two clubs."
He indicated that he does not imagine how to do this and there are two confrontations coming between them in the price of the European Championship final.
France Football included in the report the opinions of a group of specialists and officials in Saint-Germain, who talked about the benefit that Saint-Germain can achieve by contracting with Lionel Messi, indicating in general that the French club is the closest without others to win the signature of the Argentine star.
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