Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said on Tuesday the club has terminated its contract with a company accused of criticising current and former players, including Lionel Messi, on social media.
The company oversaw “dozens” of accounts attacking the likes of Messi, Gerard Pique, Xavi Hernandez, Pep Guardiola and Carles Puyol on Facebook and Twitter. “Barca has never hired a service to discredit anyone,” he said. “Not a player, not a former player, nor any politician, manager, president or former president.”
“Let one thing be clear,” Bartomeu continued. “To the question: Have we commissioned the monitoring of social networks? The answer is yes. The board were clumsy in their sacking of coach Ernesto Valverde last month, when an approach to Xavi Hernandez was leaked while Valverde was still in post.
What kind of stupid agenda is this ffs? I3 is involved in a controversy which alleges that Barcelona's own president, Bartomeu, paid them to bad mouth all Barcelona legends: from Pep to Xavi, to Messi and others. But you saw Messi as a paper-selling click bait to “agend” with.
Should we start calling them dictator?
Messi is now untouchable😂🤣