Lionel Messi is currently on vacation, and he obviously wants to talk about his missed adventure at Paris SG. The Argentinian attacks in particular the difficulties of adaptation, and the Parisian supporters who are not really conciliatory according to him.
Arriving like a rock star at PSG, Lionel Messi left through the back door two years later. This signing in Paris, he had not necessarily chosen it, since he had found himself pushed out at the last minute by FC Barcelona, who had not extended his contract to everyone’s surprise. General move therefore for the Argentinian, who had hardly ever moved from his Catalonia, and who had a very difficult time of adaptation. While he had been quiet for the first few months despite mixed performances, his failures against Real Madrid, and in particular his missed penalty, caused the first whistles and increasingly acid criticism against him.
Messi did not digest the about-face of the supporters
This reversal of the public of the Parc des Princes, the sevenfold Ballon d’Or experienced it as a betrayal. In an interview with BeIN Sports, he admits that he did not digest having been let go by the supporters of PSG, who were not kind to him. The revenge was quite terrible, since Lionel Messi hardly greeted Parisian fans for a year and a half. Even if he does not want to put everyone in the same bag, the number 30 of Paris SG made it clear that he had been very disappointed to have been treated in this way, and that it had not encouraged to continue the adventure in the French capital.
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“I arrived late, I had no pre-season preparation, with a new club, another way of playing, new teammates, the city, all of that made my adaptation difficult at the beginning, the same for my family. At first it was great. I received a lot of encouragement and then people started to treat me differently. The majority treated me well but there was a rift with a certain part of the public. It was of course not my intention but these are things that have already happened in the past with Neymar and Mbappé, it is their way of doing things “, Delivered Lionel Messi, who thus criticizes the supporters of PSG and believes that the big stars of football are not respected in Paris.
A judgment that he is not the first to make, even if Lionel Messi also knows the versatility of supporters, regardless of the club concerned. In his own country, Messi has been spit on in the past, even being ordered to withdraw from the Argentina selection for his inability to win him titles. He also experienced this in more complicated periods at Barcelona, where he was singled out to lead the whole team as he pleased, without worrying about the level of performance. The vagaries of the career of a football superstar, who failed to really make an impression during his time at PSG. And it is not certain that everything is due to the attitude of the Parisian supporters.
