Robert Pirès has criticized former PSG superstars Neymar and Lionel Messi. Neymar recently said during an interview in Brazil that he and the Argentine had “experienced hell” in Paris because they missed the targeted Champions League triumph.
In the TV show Canal Football Club Ex-France international Pirès said: “For me they’re crybabies. As a professional footballer you have to withstand the pressure. Sometimes you play well and you get praise. If not, then… It’s part of the game.”
Referring to his own experience, the 1998 World Cup winner and longtime Arsenal striker said: “We’ve all been criticized. When I came to Arsenal I was supposed to replace Marc Overmars. They said it was a hopeless task. I have my mouth kept, worked and in the end it paid off.”
Neymar, who played for PSG for six years before joining Al-Hilal, had complained to Globo regarding Messi: “We’ve been through hell, he and I. It makes us sad. We were there to do our best to give, to win titles, to try to make history. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it.”
Messi also didn’t speak well about his former club after his transfer to Inter Miami. He recently confessed to his move to the Seine in 2021 that he “didn’t want it. I had to get used to a place that was completely different from where I had lived all my life. Both in terms of the city and also in sporting terms, and that was difficult.”
The PSG ultras vented their displeasure a few days ago when they celebrated the departure of the two strikers with banners in Paris and Miami. It said: “Finally the bully is gone”.
2023-09-05 17:41:48
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