Timing of latest controversy poses potential distraction ahead of crucial week for the team. FMTNews Messi Spain Barcelona
I3 Ventures is accused of criticising current and former players, including Messi, on social media.
According to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser Catalunya, the company oversaw “dozens” of accounts attacking the likes of Messi, Gerard Pique, Xavi Hernandez, Pep Guardiola and Carles Puyol on Facebook and Twitter. “But they also said that there would be evidence. We will have to wait to see if it is true or not. We cannot say much and wait to see what happens with all this. It seems a strange issue,” added the Barca captain.“The president told us the same thing he said publicly, the same thing he said at the press conference. What was the situation, what had happened. I can’t say much more,” Messi said.
Barcelona had already threatened legal action against any media organisations that “continue to implicate the club in this type of practice”.“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.
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