Crisis in Barcelona: Antoine Griezmann’s new anger with Ronald Koeman for...

The internal conflicts in Barcelona do not stop. To the strong dispute that a large part of the squad (with Lionel Messi at the head) with the president Josep María Bartomeu for the request to make a new salary cut, we must add that one of the figures of the first team is angry with Ronald Koeman and the treatment he receives at the beginning of this season.

As reported Sports Four, Antoine Griezmann has a “monumental anger” with the Dutch technical director. The world champion striker with France at the 2018 World Cup in Russia feels that his substitution was a “real humiliation” in the Classic of Spain against Real Madrid (the Catalans fell 3-1 against Merengue at the Camp Nou).

The former Atlético de Madrid sat between the relays and in his place was the young Pedri, only 17 years old and with no experience in this kind of game. Spanish was one of the incorporations of culé For this season. Despite being down on the scoreboard, the striker only entered the game at 80 minutes, when he replaced Ansu Fati (also 17 years old).

“The French forward was frankly angry. Not a single word came out of his mouth, neither for his coach, nor for his teammates. The ex of the Athletic one feels that the decision of Koeman is a revenge for the words he and Deschamps spoke “, reported the aforementioned medium.

At the time, Griezmann started the controversy after playing a match with his national team: “I feel good, I feel good, because the coach knows where to put me and, therefore, I benefit from it, as well as the confidence that the coach and my teammates give me ”. The Les Blues strategist, for his part, said: “I’m sure he’s not happy with his situation in Barcelona). Antoine never complains, but to give his full potential it is always better for a player to be in his best position ”.

The footballer is also concerned about the few minutes he is having with the shirt blaugrana, something that could be counterproductive in the face of the Eurocup, one of its main objectives. He galo, 29, has only played 5 games so far this season (all for La Liga – in four he was a starter, but in none of them he played the 90 minutes). In addition, he was a substitute in the 5-1 win against Ferencváros and had no action.

“It has been our plan for this game to be in control, and we have changed Leo’s position and we have put Ansu as a reference to try to find depth and have players on the wing with good ball control and play between the lines. I think we played a good game. When we were losing we tried to improve with the players on the field and then we opted to give more freshness on the wing with Dembélé and Trincao, and Griezmann up with Leo. In the end we had to risk and I don’t mind losing 1-2 or 1-3 ”, was the explanation given by Koeman at a press conference.

Faced with offensive problems, the Barcelona technical director would have in mind to reuse Antoine Griezmann from the beginning in the momentous clash against Juventus for the Champions League, but would place him in the position of center forward.

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