In addition, the supporters demanded the resignation of the management of the Parisian club after being eliminated from the Champions League and not having been able to raise the level in Ligue 1, at the risk of losing first place.
The environment around PSG is not comfortable at all . In football, the elimination of the Champions League against Bayern Munich in the round of 16 still weighs, to which is added the poor performance of the team in Ligue 1 which puts them at risk of losing the lead.
One of the main targets in this situation is Lionel Messi. For Parisian supporters, the difference in performance with the club is far from what it showed a few months ago during the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in which it ended up lifting the trophy.
For the same, a group of supporters showed up at the gates of PSG headquarters to demand a series of changes to the way the club and its players operate . Indeed, the Argentinian has been dedicated a song of “Messi son of a bitch”. Something that seemed impossible after the affection they showed the player when he joined the team after leaving Barcelona.
Of course, the anger is not only against the player, but also against the leadership. Fans sang in chorus “Management, resign”.
Messi, separated
Inside the club, the rift between managers and the player cleared up after the leaders decided to sanction the striker after going without permission to a publicity event in Saudi Arabia .
In turn, L’Equipe assured that this also means they won’t be seeking the player’s renewal. “It’s one of the consequences of the last 48 hours. Lionel Messi’s trip to Saudi Arabia, without telling Paris Saint-Germain, weighed so heavily on the Parisian management that the decision was taken not to extend his contract. star”, they assured in the publication.
General discomfort
On the other hand, the historic PSG player Jérôme Rothen took advantage of his space on the RMC Sport channel to make his opinion known. “Honestly, it’s still scary to hear this stuff. It bothers me all the more because you already know what I think of Leo Messi’s years at PSG, of his coming, why he came, why he wants to extend. Anyway, it’s only a financial question. It was the only club capable of giving him what he wanted. The special one. I say the only one. Even now he would like to go back to Barcelona but he can’t, so he’s stuck and he’s doing everything he can to try to develop, to try to get more money from the Qataris… Since he has already paid them well to prepare for the World Cup and he got what he wanted. But now, goodbye! Bye Bye! Bye Bye! That’s enough “, he commented.
“And I’ll tell you, this case, which comes a few days before a crucial match for PSG in Troyes because they can lose the title and a lot of things. They have already lost their Parisian supporters, but also the French supporters and the football fans, that’s the truth. “, He continued.
Finally, he launched that “There is no more respect in fact. And above all, we do not know what will happen. And above all, we know nothing. We don’t know what is being said internally, no one reacts, Luis Campos does not respond, certainly because he is irrelevant, and it is certainly the same for Galtier. If he had an agreement from a certain part of the club and another part sanctions him, Messi will not understand it. It’s dramatic. When you see what PSG represents today in Paris and in France, it means that they don’t care about anything. And Lionel Messi, I don’t question his career, which is fantastic, nor his talent, but his arrival at PSG is a total fiasco ”.
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