Lionel Messi has broken silence over the ‘break in relationship with fans’ at PSG after leaving the club for Inter Miami.
After Messi left his boyhood club, Barcelona, in 2021, Messi scored 32 goals across two seasons at the Parc des Princes and won two Ligue 1 titles but he failed in helping his team to win UEFA Champions League.
The 36-year-old was booed by supporters of PSG after losing to Clermont in his final game earlier this month.
Messi has now opened up on why he joined the French giants two years ago.
In a recent interview with beIN Sports, he said: “I came to Paris because I liked the club, because I had friends and a lot of people I knew in the dressing room, teammates from the national team or some I had been with before.
“It seemed to me that, beyond what the club was, I was going to have a much easier adaptation than in other teams I could have gone to, so that’s a little bit why I decided to go to the club.
“The truth is that it was a very difficult adaptation, much more than I expected.
‘Apart from the fact that I had people I knew in the dressing room and I had relations with them, it was complicated to adapt to a new change. I arrived late, I didn’t have a pre-season. I had to adapt to a new city, which was difficult for my family and for me.
While talking about how the fans treated him, he said: “People started to treat me differently. Part of the PSG crowd, the rest and the majority still treated me as they did at the beginning, but there was a break with the PSG fans.
“It wasn’t my intention, far from it, to generate that break. It also happened with Neymar or [Kylian] Mbappe before.”
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