FC Paris Saint-Germain had to reluctantly accept that Lionel Messi and Leandro Paredes were traveling to Argentina, despite being injured, and that infuriated the club’s leader.
The Paris team did not have the right to complain about that, but they presented the problem to FIFA, where there was no success in solving the problem. In the end, Maurizio Pochettino had no choice, so he had to accept the absence, hoping that the Argentines would return in the best condition.
In a way, PSG wanted to present their problem to the public, so they decided to appear in the media of sports director Leonard.
– We do not agree to let a player who is not feeling well or who is in the recovery phase. There is no logic and this situation deserves to be defined by FIFA law – Leonardo said for the French “Le Parisien”, shocked by the situation.
The sports director of Paris Saint-Germain appeared in the media a few weeks ago and complained about Messi, as he spends more time with the national team than in Paris.
“He comes and goes, and now he has a muscle injury,” Leonardo said at the time.
Two weeks after those words, Messi is returning to Argentina to prepare for two important matches for the World Cup in Qatar, although he missed several important matches with PSG, which bothers the club’s leaders.
