11/02/2020 4:18 PM
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Updated 11/02/2020 4:18 PM
Quique Setién's statements last weekend, during an interview with Vicente del Bosque for the newspaper
El País
, generated a great stir not only in Spain.
For the first time, a coach who led Lionel Messi was encouraged to give his version of the difficulty in intimate management, related to the power that
Leo
possesses
within the Barcelona dressing room.
"
Leo
is difficult to manage. He is very reserved but he makes you see the things he wants. He doesn't talk much. Yes, look ... But hey, you also have to take into account that he is the best footballer of all time. And who it's me to change it ... If there in
Barcelona
they have accepted it as it is for years and have not changed it ... ", said the former coach of the Catalan club, who was thrown out after the fateful 8-2 suffered against Bayern Munich for the quarterfinals of the last Champions League.
But the Spanish press, this Monday, went further.
He was not left alone with those controversial phrases.
The program
What you play,
of the
Cadena Ser
de Catalunya, revealed the discussion that DT and 10 would have had after that famous match against Celta in Vigo in which
Leo
, in full stop to drink water, did not want to listen to the directions given to him by
Eder Sarabia
, the coach's field assistant.
Setién and his verbose assistant Eder Sarabia, when they were part of the Barcelona coaching staff.
(Photo: EFE)
Already in the dressing room, according to the journalist
Adrián Albets
, Setién did not like the way the team worked (Celta tied on time) and he let the squad know in a bad way.
Messi jumped, according to the same source, to ask for respect, and the DT would have raised the bet with that phrase that today is the title of several notes in Spain:
"If you don't like what I say, there you have the door."
The response on the 10th was silence and a "compassionate" smile as it was described in said sports program.
In the note in
El País
, Del Bosque, former coach and world champion with Spain in 2010, reminded Setién of an alleged phrase that
Tata
Martino would have said to Messi when he was Barsa coach, which was never confirmed by the protagonists , but which is very famous within the culé world: "I know that if you call the president you can throw me out at any time, but don't show me every day."
What did Setién say on the subject?
"Yes, I have heard that phrase and others. I don't need anyone to tell me what Martino or another said.
I have lived it.
I have had enough experiences to make an
exact assessment
of how this boy and the others really are."
