Lionel Messi doesn’t understand how PSG let Neymar do what he wants when it comes to discipline and seriousness.
Lionel Messi has long been considered a one-club player, and everyone on the football planet saw the Argentinian end his career at FC Barcelona. But the economic situation, weariness, sporting results and problems with the management ended up forcing La Pulga to change air. PSG was then the only one able to align all the criteria to recruit him. This is what happened and the number 30 of Paris SG thus discovered a new universe. Arrived timidly in Paris, he who is not very expansive, Lionel Messi was visibly surprised by the bad habits taken by the players of Mauricio Pochettino, who are not really workaholics, while the management is known to overprotect its biggest stars.
Messi does not understand!
Lionel Messi knows something about this, he who is allowed to fly to Barcelona as soon as he has a day and a half off, even if it is not optimal for recovery to accumulate trips, including short ones. distance. For its part, El Pais dedicated a long article to Lionel Messi’s first months in the French capital. And on a sporting level, what shocked the Argentine the most was Neymar’s behavior. The Brazilian was an essential player at Barça, technical and lively, provocative and feline. Seeing him again and training alongside him, Lionel Messi noticed that his former friend had lost a lot, and this observation was easily explained by the lack of professionalism of the number 10 of PSG, at night hours incompatible with recovery. A relative of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi admitted that “ Messi was puzzled in the face of the lack of discipline in relation to Neymar’s lifestyle, and the ease with which PSG let Neymar do what he wanted.
An agreement in Neymar’s contract to return to Brazil?
Messi did not understand how the Parisian leaders had been able to let Neymar recover from his ankle injury in Brazil, and chain social evenings or video games, to return two weeks late on the worst-case scenario compared to his injury. A tolerance that surprised the Argentinian, to the point that the latter tries to understand how PSG could let all this go by the locker room, without having any real answer except that Neymar had had the green light from his management. El Pais even specifies that the return to Brazil and the treatment in his country were even provided for in the new contract of number 10 in the event of injury. And in the meantime, Neymar has been performing transparently since his return, with an incredible number of lost balls, including the one that led to Real’s second goal on Wednesday evening. Maybe not so surprising for Lionel Messi…
