Griezmann: It hurt and annoyed Messi when I didn't come to Barca

Griezmann: It hurt and annoyed Messi when I didn't come to Barca

¡Griezmann confiesa qué le dijo Messi cuando fichó por el Barça! / | @MovistarFutbol

The former Atletico player turned down Barca in 2018, only to come a year later

Antoine Griezmann had not spoken publicly since his presentation at Barca and last night, after putting up with "many things and many comments" he said it was "time to put things in their place". He spoke to Universo Valdano on Movistar.

The player is fed up of criticism and says he's an "easy target" and also spoke about his relationship with Leo Messi.

"I spoke with Leo after I arrived and he told me that when I rejected the chance to go the first time, it annoyed him and hurt him, because he had made public comments praising me. But now since I am in the team, I am teammates with him, and that's what I feel every day."

Griezmann also distanced himself from comments made by his former agent Eric Olhats, whom he parted from in 2017, criticising Leo Messi.

"I have no relationship with Eric. As I don't talk, they called him and it can hurt me. Leo knows I have a lot of respect from him, I learn from him. My uncle (Emmanuel Lopes, another who has made critical comments of Messi) doesn't know what football is about, and in the end the journalist looks for a comment and throws it out there. I told all this to Messi to get things straight. We solved it."

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