Luis Enrique Bertengkar dengan Messi, Sang Bintang Bersiap Hengkang
Messi is Unhappy Under Luis Enrique and Could be Sold
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
BARCELONA kalah 1-0 dari Real Sociedad, skuad asuhan David Moyes pada Minggu malam. Performa Lionel Messi dan Neymar diduga merosot bersama Luis Enrique. Pelatih Barcelona ini harus menjalani dua laga penting untuk menyelamatkan kariernya saat Elche dan Atletico Madrid. Sementara Suarez masih tumpul karena hanya mencetak satu gol setelah Messi dikabarkan diincar Chelsea. Manajemen Barca pun bertindak tegas memecat direktur Andoni Zubizaretta setelah Charles Puyol pensiun.
Ketika Real Sociedad mencetak gol melawan Barcelona pada hari Minggu malam, kamera televisi mengarah ke kursi yang ditempati tim Barcelona, tempat pelatih Luis Enrique dikerubuti para pemain bernilai total US$303,4 juta.
Neymar menoleh ke Lionel Messi seraya berbisik: "Anda lebih baik pemanasan dulu."
Para pemain bintang di Barcelona bergurau tentang melego sang pelatih sebagai pertanda Luis Enrique tidak disegani oleh para pemainnya.
Mereka memulai 2015 dengan kekacauan setelah Pengadilan Arbitrase menguatkan larangan FIFA untuk mengontrak pemain minimal 12 bulan dan Messi tampaknya masuk pusaran pemain Barca yang menentang kepemimpinan Luis Enrique - yang dibebani dua laga penting untuk selamatkan kariernya.
Keluhan terbesar para pemain 'terhadap manajer, yang belum mampu mengangkat moral tim musim ini, dan para pemain tampaknya menentang sang pelatih, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
Messi, Neymar dan Dani Alves mendapat cuti ekstra dua hari menyambut Natal dan kemudian diberitahu bahwa mereka kurang fit untuk mendukung tim di awal tahun.
Keinginan Messi untuk bermain di setiap pertandingan - yang selama ini selalu diberikan Pep Guardiola saat masih di Barca - menandakan pelatih bertindak ceroboh dan malah komplain tentang penyakit yang dideritanya. Sakit perut yang dialami sang pelatih memberi interpretasi lain: dua pemain diyakini bertengkar dengannya pada sesi latihan Jumat dan Minggu di San Sebastian.
Sesi latihan Senin yang dibuka untuk umum bersama anak-anak sekolah terkait liburan Natal untuk memberi kesempatan pada anak-anak menonton pahlawan idola mereka, tapi Messi malah bolos dan memilih berada di rumah dikaitkan dengan Chelsea.
Messi juga menjadi follower Beyonce dan Manchester City sehingga tampak jelas aktivitasnya di media sosial menyiratkan pesan 'come and get me' dikaitkan dengan momen pelatihan.
Penggemar Chelsea berharap dia bisa bergabung di klub mereka - Messi juga menjadi follower Cesc Fabregas dan Filipe Luis di Instagram - mungkin harus dicatat bahwa ketika Messi tidak bahagia di Barcelona cenderung menyiratkan niatnya untuk segera hengkang dari Barcelona.
BARCELONA were beaten 1-0 by David Moyes' Real Sociedad on Sunday night. Lionel Messi and Neymar, among others, have fallen out with Luis Enrique. Coach has two games to save his job, against Elche and Atletico Madrid. Luis Suarez has only one La Liga goal while Messi is linked to Chelsea. Barca sack sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta while Carles Puyol leaves.
When Real Sociedad scored against Barcelona after just one minute on Sunday night, television cameras honed in on the Barcelona bench, where coach Luis Enrique had left almost £200m worth of his squad.
Neymar turned to Lionel Messi and said: 'You had better get warmed-up'.
The star player's joke at the expense of his manager was symptomatic of the chaos that currently reigns at Barcelona.
They began 2015 in turmoil after the Court of Arbitration upheld FIFA's ban on them signing players for the next 12 months and are now in full-blown meltdown with Messi one of several senior players at loggerheads with Luis Enrique - who has been given two games to save his job.
The players' biggest complaint towards the manager, who is yet to name an unchanged team this season, is that they don't know where they stand with him.
Messi, Neymar and Dani Alves were all given two extra days' holiday over Christmas only to then be told when they returned that they had not trained enough to play the first game of the year.
Messi's desire to play in every match – something that Pep Guardiola nearly always made sure he did – means he took the decision badly and failed to show for training on Monday complaining of gastroenteritis. Sick to the stomach of his manager would be another interpretation; the two men are believed to have argued both in Friday's training session and on Sunday in San Sebastian.
Monday's session was open to the public with school children still on their Christmas holidays allowed to watch their heroes train, but Messi was at home following Chelsea on Instagram instead.
He also follows Beyonce and Manchester City so it would be taking it too far to see such a move on social media as a 'come and get me' message but the timing was telling all the same.
Chelsea fans hopeful he could end up at their club – he also followed Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis on Instagram – should probably bear in mind that when Messi is unhappy at Barcelona it tends to be the people he is unhappy with that move on.
