Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin, with AFP 18:07 p.m., March 19, 2023

Lionel Messi whistled by his own supporters. The Paris Saint-Germain striker made his entrance on the pitch of the Parc des Princes accompanied by a few whistles from the bays. Protests that come as the player goes through a tormented week with his club...

A few whistles, but loud enough to be audible, came down from the spans of the Parc des Princes at the announcement of the name of Lionel Messi for the composition of the teams, Sunday before the Ligue 1 match Paris Saint-Germain-Rennes. Even if the border had nothing to do with the boos against him and Neymar in particular a year ago after the elimination in the knockout stages of the Champions League by Real Madrid (1-0/1-3), some of the ultras of the Parisian club whistled the Argentine star.

Así ha recibido el Parque de los Príncipes a Leo Messi y Kylian Mbappé. Al argentino le han dedicado pitos, aunque también una parte del estadio le ha aplaudido. Al francés le han dedicado una sonora ovación.@diarioaspic.twitter.com/hddDQWH9cJ

— Andrés Onrubia Ramos (@AndiOnrubia) March 19, 2023

At the end of his contract in June, Messi and his advisers are currently in negotiations with PSG for a possible extension. It remains to be seen if the striker of Argentina will extend with the club. For several days, rumors, circulating on social networks, evoke a potential interest of Saudi clubs for the player.

Controversy during training

The player found himself in a controversy Friday night, part of the fact that he did not finish training, Tuesday at Camp des Loges. According to RMC radio, confirming a rumor that started on social networks, he would have been unhappy with an exercise proposed by the staff. PSG strongly denied, as well as Jorge Messi, the father of the player, who spoke of "fake news" on his Instagram account.

Jorge Messi denies:

- That Leo #Messi left training on Tuesday

- Have high demands to extend at PSG- That they ask €600M to sign at Al-Hilal



"We will no longer tolerate more lies to gain followers" warns the father of the player pic.twitter.com/kqaeRcZWRU

— Florent Torchut (@FlorentTorchut) March 17, 2023

Asked before the controversy about the hypothesis that Messi could be whistled by the Park, ten days after the new European failure, coach Christophe Galtier had replied: "But no! They have no reason to whistle our players, they gave the maximum in this competition. We were not eliminated because of such and such but because Bayern Munich arrived fitter than us in this double confrontation (0-1/0-2)."