The frustrations at Barcelona are beginning to bubble over.
Barcelona has already endured a rare midseason managerial change, and Tuesday brought the latest development: Lionel Messi calling out sporting director–and former teammate–Eric Abidal for public comments made regarding the decision to fire Ernesto Valverde and the club's performance, specifically certain unnamed players who weren't working hard enough.
In an interview with Spanish outlet Sport, Abidal claimed that Barcelona started looking into replacements for Valverde after the Dec. 18 Clasico, which finished scoreless.
"We watched the games and not the results, but how we played, the tactics, the work of the players who don't play a lot.