Josep María Bartomeu and Eric Abidal held a meeting on the afternoon of this Wednesday in which the situation of the technical secretary was discussed after his words in which he censored the players and the harsh response of Leo Messi. President and technical secretary had already had telephone conversations throughout the day, but they could not see their faces because Bartomeu was traveling.
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Before meeting Abidal, the Barca president had already talked several times with Messi in order to reduce the tension. Bartomeu did not want to cease Abidal and in the end the technical secretary remains in office, at least for now.
Both Abidal and Bartomeu will travel this Thursday to Bilbao to the complicated game that Barcelona has in the Cup against Athletic. On the trip there could be a meeting between the technical secretary and Leo Messi, either before or after the crash, although this point was not confirmed.
In this way, Bartomeu stops the coup in the first instance, although the consequences of the confrontation between Abidal and Messi cannot be evaluated for a few weeks.