Quique Setien looks back on his relationship with Messi!

Quique Setien has had a difficult time at Barca. Arriving in place of Ernesto Valverde on January 13, 2020, the Spanish coach experienced one of the biggest humiliations in Barcelona history, during the 2020 Champions League quarter-final between Bayern and the Blaugranas, match which ended with an unreal score of 8-2 for the Bavarians. Following this result, Setien was logically fired by his leaders. Today without a club, the Spanish technician returned to his relationship with Messi. Words conveyed by Mundo Deportivo.

“I prefer not to talk about Messi. At the beginning I had a very good relationship, but it’s true that later it deteriorated a bit because of the results, because the club’s situation was not the best…I don’t think he was happy at all.”

The former Barca boss then admitted that Messi isn’t ‘an easy player to deal with’ but he’s no one to change the Argentine. Setien then discusses the character of ‘La Pulga’:

“He’s very reserved but he makes you see the things he wants. He doesn’t talk a lot. After leaving what I know is that at times I had to make other decisions, but there is something that is above you: the club. And it is above the president, the player, the coach. It is the club and the supporters. It is to them that you have the utmost respect and you have to do what is best for the entity. There are millions of people who think that Messi, or any other player, is more important than the club and the coach. This player, like others around him, lived for 14 years winning titles, winning everything.”