Lionel Messi has explained that he attacked Barcelona last week through an Instagram post after the sale of Luis Suarez to Atletico Madrid, because he felt hurt by many things and that he needed to express his unhappiness.
Messi had a disruptive summer at the Camp Nou, first asking Barcelona to activate a clause in his deal with the club, which would allow him to leave for free.
Barcelona, ??however, responded strongly, saying that the deadline to activate that clause had already expired as the request should have been made in June and not in August.
And then bursting into criticism of the club for the way he fired his close friend and teammate Luis Suarez, who was informed he was no longer part of the club through a two-minute phone call.
Messi had written about the departure of Suarez: “It will be difficult to see you in another shirt and even more so to play against you on the field. You have deserved a genuine farewell to who you are; one of the most important footballers in the history of the club. “
“You did not deserve to drive you away the way they did. But the truth is that nothing surprises me anymore here .”
Now, Messi has explained the feelings that prompted him to criticize the heart club so openly, acknowledging that his actions were divisive but that he needed to express unhappiness.
He told the newspaper Sport: “I said what I felt in a difficult moment. I understand that people may have thought I should have shut up and allowed this to happen, as I have done on many occasions, but many things have hurt me in recent weeks and that was my way of expressing it.”
