Koeman blames Barcelona: Messy had a fight with the club, not with me

Barcelona coach Ronald Coeman insisted that there is no conflict between him and Lionel Messes, following the club's decision to change course and stay with the Catalan team. Messi informed Barcelona that she wanted to leave after the 2019-2020 season, a disappointing campaign with no trophy and that she closed with humiliating 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

However, 33-year-old turned the course earlier this month, telling “Goal” that it would stay in “Camp Nou”, because you don't want to get involved in a legal battle with the life club. Messi has now returned to Barcelona before the new season, with the future in doubt, after entering the last season of the current contract.

Koeman, who was brought to replace Quique Setien after the defeat of Bayernt, has said that any conflict exists is between the player and the club. He and Mess have spoken many times since the Argentinian declared the goal of staying at “Camp Nou”.

Me and Mess go very well, said former Dutch national coach for “Fox Sports” ) This was largely a conflict between Mess and the club. I've been talking to Mess since then and we're going to continue as usual”. Part of the Barcelona Mess's complaints included the club's poor acquisitions in recent seasons, as legends like Xavi and Andres Inista have left and have not been replaced adequate.

Although Barcelona is linked to a host of names this summer, Koeman has acknowledged that his team appears to be starting the new season with the group currently running: We're now moving toward the new season and I assume we're playing with this group we're preparing for”.

Lyon's star, Memphis Depay, whom Koeman trained in Holland, is one of the players most connected to the passage of “Camp Nou”. However, the president of the French club, Jean-Michel Aulas, said that Barcelona colleague Josep Maria Bartholomew, personally claimed they had no funds to make the offer: “Barca's president told me on Sunday that they were suffering a lot from the Coddy crisis and he didn't have the opportunity to make an offer for Depay”