Alert, it’s too cold for Messi

This is one of the arguments regularly used by detractors of Lionel messi. We can summarize it as follows: “OK, it’s easy to play on Camp Nou billiards against Getafe, in the mildness of Barcelona, ​​but we would like to see it on a Monday night in the rain against the strong guys from Stoke City or Burnley. “

Unless he goes to Manchester City in the years to come, we will probably never know what Messi would have done in the Premier League. On the other hand, we can not see that the former n ° 10 of Barça is far from radiant since his arrival in League 1. And his great friend Luis Suarez released an interesting information that may explain the mixed start to the season of the seven-fold Golden Ball, least efficient attacker in the French championship.

“Our relationship is still intact, we talk every day, told the Atlético de Madrid striker to TNT Sports Argentina. We talk about the matches, about the family… He told me that he suffered a lot from playing in the cold and especially in the snow. You have to get used to the cold there. “

Suarez’s remarks were made on Monday evening, on the sidelines of the Ballon d’Or award ceremony. The day before, Messi had played in the snow in Saint-Etienne (1-3), which did not prevent him from distributing three assists. Saturday night, he was not so successful in the cold of Bollaert …

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