In Rothen s’enflamme this Thursday, May 4, Emmanuel Petit was strongly carried away at the microphone of RMC Sport following the Lionel Messi affair, suspended by PSG for a period of two weeks.
While he was welcomed like a rock star when he arrived at Paris-Saint-Germain in the summer of 2021, four years after his colleague Neymar, Lionel Messi knows a real descent into hell within the club of the capital. The 2022 world champion traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this week without permission from the club that inflicted him a two-week suspension. As he turns 36 on June 24, Lionel Messi’s future at PSG is in serious jeopardy. His suspension was the subject of heated debate between the 1998 world champion, Emmanuel Petit et the ex-footballer Jerome Rothen in the show Rothen s’enflamme on RMC Sport this Thursday, May 4. The first spoke about the “trio infernal” embodied by Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar who, according to him, has “dazzled the European scene with their talent until they stumbled after the World Cup”.
Emmanuel Petit defends Lionel Messi
Jérôme Rothen obviously disagreeing with Emmanuel Petit’s comments about Lionel Messi, the former world champion defended: “It hasn’t been good but it hasn’t been bad either. That’s my opinion.” And to get carried away violently in front of his colleague: “Are you telling me that Messi, seven times Ballon d’Or, is he responsible for this failure? Stop kidding me, no kidding! Stop mistaking lights for lanterns, no Messing around! Those who know real football are going to tell you what? Messi does he work? Messi has always worked, I keep saying it, I repeat myself constantly. Stop suing! lawsuit, do it to the management of the club (…) They are the main culprits! They must take their responsibility.”
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Strong tensions between Jérôme Rothen and Emmanuel Petit
This debate about Lionel Messi has sparked strong tensions between Jérôme Rothen and Emmanuel Petit who did not mince his words: “Are you telling me Messi isn’t football? You’re smashing guys who have been lighting us up for fifteen years! But who am I to criticize Messi? No kidding. But you guys stop , f***, he’s been screwing the guy for two years! Last year he got insulted the same way.” And ironically: “Get out Messi if you listen to me, get out of PSG quickly!” “Anyway, it’s what we ask him, I hope he will arrive”replied Jérôme Rothen.
