Messi apologizes after trip to Saudi Arabia

Leo Messi speaks for the first time since his unauthorized trip to the club earlier this week. instagram

Lionel Messi breaks the silence. Sanctioned by the club and shouted down by supporters after his unauthorized trip to Saudi Arabia earlier this week, the 35-year-old world champion apologizes “to (his) teammates“, now ensuring “wait for the club to decide“, through a video on Instagram. In a suit, shirt open, Messi explains that he thought “sincerely“have, like his comrades, “a day off, like the previous week“. Except that in the end, Paris trained without him on Monday… And to add that he does not “could not cancel this trip which had already been postponed“. Indeed, Saudi Arabia, which has made the “Pulga” one of its amb***adors in terms of tourism, was expecting it in March. “I’m sorry“, he again repeated.

Not sure that this is enough to calm the discontent of the supporters, like the Ultras who copiously insulted the sevenfold Ballon d’Or on Wednesday, when they came to shout their anger in front of the club’s headquarters, in Boulogne-Billancourt. It remains to be seen whether we will see Leo Messi again in the colors of PSG, he who is at the end of his contract and whose future seems to be written far from the French capital. He will certainly miss the matches in Troyes on Sunday (8:45 p.m.) and against Ajaccio next week. There will remain three (Auxerre, Strasbourg, Clermont) thereafter. “We’ll see when Leo comes back… We’ll see what happens», said the Parisian coach, Christophe Galtier, at a press conferencerefusing tocomment on the club’s decision“.