In January 2015, Lionel Messi and Luis Enrique almost came to his hands during FC Barcelona training. On Sunday, they will meet during PSG-Inter Miami.
Since Inter Miami conceded a draw against Palmeiras (2-2), thus finishing 2nd in his hen, which will make him meet PSG in the round of 16 of the Club World Cup on Sunday in Atlanta, everyone only talks about the reunion between Lionel Messi and the club of the capital. A reunion which promises to be tense because the Argentinian did not appreciate his passage in France, between 2021 and 2023, and there is never a lack of an opportunity to make it known. Qataris leaders as well as PSG supporters live it quite badly because that is to say that it has benefited from a royal treatment in Paris … This tension between the two parties will bring a little chili to the poster.
A similarity between Barça 2015 and PSG 2025
But the Spanish press, it recalls that Lionel Messi also maintained complicated relationships with the current PSG coach, Luis Enrique. It only lasted six months, from August 2014 to January 2015, but it went far and it almost cost the technician his post. Arrived in Barcelona at the 2014 offseason, Luis Enrique wanted, as in Paris, to mark his territory, especially with his players. Except that at PSG, he came across a young group while among the Blaugranas, he had experienced stars. Relations were freezing throughout the first leg and led to a big clash in early January 2015.
Returning last from his winter holidays in South America, Lionel Messi was put on the bench for a trip to Saint-Sébastien. An affront that he lived very badly. During the following training, Luis Enrique did not report a fault on him. Messi then disgusted and copiously insulted his coach. In the process, the president of Barça proposed to turn Luis Enrique. Messi refused, explained himself with his coach and, five months later, they won the hat -trick. An episode that is reminiscent of what happened between Dembélé and Enrique in the fall, with the same tensions, the same rabibochage and the same victorious conclusion!
