During one of the two cooling breaks in Barcelona's 2-2 draw away at Celta Vigo, Lionel Messi clearly ignored Quique Setien's assistant, Eder Sarabia.
The coach wanted to address Messi to make a comment, at which point the Argentine, realising that Sarabia is talking to him, turned around and walked away.
These images came courtesy of El Partidazo de Movistar, and it once again reflects poorly on Setien and his coaching staff.
Sarabia was left surprised and tried to address Messi again immediately, when the captain returned to leave the bottle he was drinking, but Messi remained in his position. He clearly ignores Sarabia in front of a serious-looking Setien.
This scene shows the nervousness and increasingly deteriorated relationship between the current coaching staff and the heavyweights in the dressing room.
In fact, El Partidazo de Movistar also showed Luis Suarez angrily addressing Sarabia from the stands, once he had been brought off, a prelude to his message to Setien on the pitch in his post-match interview.
"What's going on away from home? The coaches are there for a reason," the Uruguayan said.
Upon arriving in the locker room at the Estadio de Balaidos, the tension crystallised into a heated discussion between the players and coaching staff that was revealed on Sunday by MARCA.
There were reproaches over certain decisions and a very tense atmosphere, surely aggravated after Real Madrid's victory away at Espanyol on Sunday night.
Sarabia was also caught going crazy on the Barcelona bench and saying things about the players during the Clasico, which did not go down well with the dressing room and that forced Setien to try and calm things down.
FAB-KOP
520
Its ok when messi does it.... but when CR7 does something even small .. everyone goes crazy... 🤷🏻♂️🧐#doublestandards
Bowdeklpr
423
Don't believe everything u read, and sometimes, see. A small misunderstanding, and the whole social media goes mad. Barca isn't playing well, apparently when they don't win then they haven't played well, and so these journalists start looking for stories, they start studying for body languages. Imagine if Barca were winning and sth like that happened btn Messi and the assistant coach, no one would have paid much attention to it. People don't let people enter your minds that easily, have patience and wait. The truth always reveals itself eventually.
menclpyz
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Barcelona, dont ditch the coach. ditch the board itself and put some sense in these players. Madrid plays with passion and craving for la liga trophy. barca is just made up of old men always playing behind and accusing the coach and people. it's not the coach that will fuel their legs. they are sluggish. absolute zero creativity. funky and predictive football and not forgetting the repetition of the boring style throughout an entire 90 mins. 100 shots, 1 on target, 100% possession 0 chances, what kind of football is that. leaky defense. awkward playing and sluggishness. Alba , pique, lenglet, and many more have no creativity and passion. even Messi. just look at his recent assist, they are all just lucky mistakes (though thanks to the fact that he always tries to go forward). I watched Madrid's match yesterday and I saw the la liga champions in action. young, vibrant, smart even RAMOS. pique is only there leaking goals and complaining and attacking players and journalist on social media as if he was a politician. Messi doesn't lead off the pitch. what do they do with their time? no one knows. no focus on how to bring back dominant football. just complaining complaining and complaining again. Madrid players were everywhere yesterday, attack and defense at the same time. when Barca reaches the midfield somehow everyone disappears. no one is moving forward. you see just 2 players at most. 8 players at the back, yet the defense still looks like a desert. bare and empty and open for any counter attack. barca opponents can have 1% possession and have 3 dangerous chances and shots on target. we are only complaining. no creativity to move forward or even defend. where is the vibrant Barca we knew. the Barca that always had at least 10 shots on target. barca has wasted at least 3 of Messi past 5 years and it's really embarrassing and disturbing. please Messi, sit the team down and do something about it like the leader. everyday that Barca steps on the pitch I am always expecting to see a sudden change resulting from the previous mistakes and disgraces (the two consecutive bottles and poor form) yet nothing happens. pls do something about it and fast.
solosmon
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Messi u are talented u got football in legs more Dan Ronaldo.... But once in ur life put in determination and more effort lk Ronaldo.... Lead ur team.... I'm always ur one fan... But I hate wen u walk around d field... Doing nothing... Organize ur team wen things are bad.... Dat y u are d captain ...
⚽CR7FOREVER⚽
217
If same thing is done by Ronaldo then all haters would have start chanting arrogant, egoistic and so on.where are they now when Messi is doing same thing
KingJerryTheGreat
212
Messi shouldn't behave like that, especially nowadays he's been acting strangely towards everyone except his best friend Suarez. Since he's the captain of the club, I say he should be a good exams to others rather than being disrespectful. I know he's a legend but atleast he should have some respect, not hating at all coz everyone can see that.......👍👍🙂
ricektu
193
Messi is selfish and is not putting any effort. Also he looks for Suarez at the expense of other players
ajin_footballforlife
14
Barcelona, dont ditch the coach. ditch the board itself and put some sense in these players. Madrid plays with passion and craving for la liga trophy. barca is just made up of old men always playing behind and accusing the coach and people. it's not the coach that will fuel their legs. they are sluggish. absolute zero creativity. funky and predictive football and not forgetting the repetition of the boring style throughout an entire 90 mins. 100 shots, 1 on target, 100% possession 0 chances, what kind of football is that. leaky defense. awkward playing and sluggishness. Alba , pique, lenglet, and many more have no creativity and passion. even Messi. just look at his recent assist, they are all just lucky mistakes (though thanks to the fact that he always tries to go forward). I watched Madrid's match yesterday and I saw the la liga champions in action. young, vibrant, smart even RAMOS. pique is only there leaking goals and complaining and attacking players and journalist on social media as if he was a politician. Messi doesn't lead off the pitch. what do they do with their time? no one knows. no focus on how to bring back dominant football. just complaining complaining and complaining again. Madrid players were everywhere yesterday, attack and defense at the same time. when Barca reaches the midfield somehow everyone disappears. no one is moving forward. you see just 2 players at most. 8 players at the back, yet the defense still looks like a desert. bare and empty and open for any counter attack. barca opponents can have 1% possession and have 3 dangerous chances and shots on target. we are only complaining. no creativity to move forward or even defend. where is the vibrant Barca we knew. the Barca that always had at least 10 shots on target. barca has wasted at least 3 of Messi past 5 years and it's really embarrassing and disturbing. please Messi, sit the team down and do something about it like the leader. everyday that Barca steps on the pitch I am always expecting to see a sudden change resulting from the previous mistakes and disgraces (the two consecutive bottles and poor form) yet nothing happens. pls do something about it and fast.
this is the longest and the most meaningful comment I have see in AF
akxsh
11
Barcelona, dont ditch the coach. ditch the board itself and put some sense in these players. Madrid plays with passion and craving for la liga trophy. barca is just made up of old men always playing behind and accusing the coach and people. it's not the coach that will fuel their legs. they are sluggish. absolute zero creativity. funky and predictive football and not forgetting the repetition of the boring style throughout an entire 90 mins. 100 shots, 1 on target, 100% possession 0 chances, what kind of football is that. leaky defense. awkward playing and sluggishness. Alba , pique, lenglet, and many more have no creativity and passion. even Messi. just look at his recent assist, they are all just lucky mistakes (though thanks to the fact that he always tries to go forward). I watched Madrid's match yesterday and I saw the la liga champions in action. young, vibrant, smart even RAMOS. pique is only there leaking goals and complaining and attacking players and journalist on social media as if he was a politician. Messi doesn't lead off the pitch. what do they do with their time? no one knows. no focus on how to bring back dominant football. just complaining complaining and complaining again. Madrid players were everywhere yesterday, attack and defense at the same time. when Barca reaches the midfield somehow everyone disappears. no one is moving forward. you see just 2 players at most. 8 players at the back, yet the defense still looks like a desert. bare and empty and open for any counter attack. barca opponents can have 1% possession and have 3 dangerous chances and shots on target. we are only complaining. no creativity to move forward or even defend. where is the vibrant Barca we knew. the Barca that always had at least 10 shots on target. barca has wasted at least 3 of Messi past 5 years and it's really embarrassing and disturbing. please Messi, sit the team down and do something about it like the leader. everyday that Barca steps on the pitch I am always expecting to see a sudden change resulting from the previous mistakes and disgraces (the two consecutive bottles and poor form) yet nothing happens. pls do something about it and fast.
I think setien must stay and these so called veterans should leave including Messi if he can't listen to the coach