Argentinian FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi urged club technical secretary Eric Abidal to "take responsibility for his decisions" after the latter's comments on the dismissal of coach Ernesto Valverde in the daily Sport on Tuesday.
Bartomeu summoned Éric Abidal for a crisis meeting after Lionel Messi's remarks against the Frenchman.
According to RAC1, Abidal could be fired. pic.twitter.com/G7m9TkpajU
Abidal is in fact summoned this Wednesday by the president of FC Barcelona Bartomeu. Catalan media reports of an emergency meeting that could cost the technical secretary his job.
"Honestly, I don't like to do this kind of thing, but I believe that everyone must be responsible for their tasks and take responsibility for their decisions," said Messi on a screenshot of the interview with Abidal in the Catalan daily broadcast. on Instagram. The players are responsible for what happens on the field, and we are the first to recognize when we are not good. "
"When we talk about players, we have to give names"
"Those responsible for sports management must also take their responsibilities and above all assume the decisions they make," said the 2019 Ballon d'Or and ex-teammate of the Frenchman after this interview in which Abidal explains that "many players were not satisfied ”by Valverde.
"Finally, I think that when we talk about players, we should give names, because otherwise, it harms us all and feeds things that are said and that are not accurate," said the six-fold Ballon d ' gold. A very rare outing for the Argentine “Pulga” (“chip”, in Spanish), rather taciturn on a daily basis.
In an interview broadcast Tuesday evening on the Sport website, the French technical secretary of the blaugrana club Éric Abidal, gives the reasons for the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde, recorded on January 13, and evokes internal turmoil.
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"A lot of the players were dissatisfied and didn't work much, and there was also an internal communication problem," said Abidal, 40, who has worked since 2018. The coach-player relationship has always been good, but he there are things I can feel as a former player. I communicated to the club what I thought about it, and a decision had to be made. "