#even if him and messi dont text anymore - posting a pic on IG saying congrats takes 2 seconds

[getting-messi]

can I ask about the whole Messi Pique thing?? I knew they weren't speaking anymore but nothing more than that

ok so i take everything with a pinch of salt and didn't really believe most of this story until recently.

I know that multiple barca players were being super stubborn with their contracts before Messi left and refusing to take a paycut and then when he left, several negotiated lower wages almost immediately after - pique being one of them.

I rolled my eyes when i heard people saying that pique was involved with Messi leaving because it just didn't make sense to me at the time. It was clear that soon after Messi would visit Barcelona with his family and hang out with Busi, Jordi and others but NEVER with Pique.

Then there were reports saying that Pique told Laporta to not renew Messi's contract and i still was hesitant because the problem with Messi leaving wasn't fully from Barca's end but from La Liga blocking the deal so i didn't think Pique could have been involved with that.

Then he made some comments a few months later saying that now that Leo has left, Barca have settled their financial problems........which is COMPLETELY false, we are still under water and our failures in UCL/Europa only make it worst. So i started sideyeing him at this point because that's a pretty rude comment to make considering the fact that Messi was willing to take a 50% cut to help the club and the stupid conspiracies about barca being in crazy debt because of messi are just insulting even more so from a player like Pique.

But what really opened my eyes to them fighting was the fact that Messi didn't say a single word or make a post when Pique announced his retirement.

Now with Pique recently talking about how he didn't watch the world cup and didn't congratulate Messi on winning 'because thinking about football post-retirement' was hard for him and he was trying to keep his distance......absolute BS.