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Josep Maria Bartomeu and Éric Abidal in a press conference of Barça

THE PRESIDENT ACTED IMMEDIATELY

Bartomeu solves the crisis with the peace between Messi and Abidal

Published:6/02/2020 - 00:53h

Updated:6/02/2020 - 00:53h

On Tuesday, a dangerous crisis broke out in Barça, but Josep Maria Bartomeu's intervention soon deactivated it. The president met on Wednesday with Éric Abidal and Leo Messi and achieved peace between them

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The FC Barcelona was in alert of crisis from the Tuesday, after a 'brush' public between Éric Abidal and Leo Messi. The technical secretary confessed in several interviews and launched a 'dart' to the staff to justify the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde, what unchained an answer of the captain through the social networks. The river went down revolved in the Camp Nou and the danger grew, but the Wednesday gave back the waters to his course.

Josep Maria Bartomeu has been the attendant to mediate in the conflict, that has finish with two key pieces of the club doing the peaces. The maximum mandator of the entity culé did not take in enterarse of the sucedido although it was in a meeting in Brussels, and in what it could put course to the City Condal to listen to the involved in person and resolve the tightnesses/tightnesss that could have brought more complications.

The Catalan put in contact with the French, with the one who spoke to last hour of the Tuesday and to first of the Wednesday. Once informed of the subject also approached to the Argentinian, and his fast intervention finished in immediate understanding. Both defended his postures but without more frictions, and beside the executive director Òscar Grau, the president turned off a fire that has run like the gunpowder by means of all the world.

After a productive morning, in the afternoon there was a new meeting between Bartomeu, Grau and Abidal. Some sources signal that the continuity of the Frenchman was at stake, but in a very hot campaign there were not drastic decisions. It reinforced the message of union that has made public and urged to keep a stability that will be key in what it subtracts of season, since still there is a lot of put for reaching.

The president achieved to give back the focus to the priorities, that are the sportive aims and of planning by which will struggle in the next months. The Barcelonan did not want tensions in the day before of a so important party like the one of quarter-finals of the Glass of Rey, and recalcó that the essential is to litigate by the trophy, beside LaLiga and the Champions, and tie to a forward to be able to advance with the reform of the staff.

The management of Setién in full crisis, excellent

Another of which has approved with note the management of this crisis is Quique Setién, that knew to handle in moments of difficulty and avoid pressures in room of press. The technician warned that in spite of being conscious of the internal problems, only is slope of the football: "we Have spoken a minute of this subject and afterwards of the party, of the importance that has. It is what interests me. To me it interests me the football. All the other can not it control, so I do not wear me out in this".