Furious Messi blasts Barcelona over the departure of Luis Suarez

Lionel Messi has accused Barcelona of ‘kicking out’ his friend and teammate Luis Suarez after the striker was sold to Atletico Madrid.

Lionel Messi has once again expressed his frustration with Barcelona, this time after Luis Suarez’s departure from the club.

Since the arrival of Ronald Koeman, a number of the club’s senior players have been told to leave the club.

Ivan Rakitic and Arturo Vidal fall into that category, and Luis Suarez was the latest name to join them. Pending an official announcement, the Uruguayan forward has already completed a move to Atletico Madrid.

Messi himself pushed to leave Barca on his own but the club famously frustrated his efforts to do so.

For a player with 198 goals for Barcelona and also their third all-time highest goal-scorer, many have fumed with the way the Catalan giants have treated Suarez.

For Messi, he is not happy about the way Suarez, one of his best friends, has been kicked out of the club.

Messi posted on Instagram: “I had already begun to imagine it but today I went into the dressing room and it truly dawned on me. It’s going to be so difficult to not continue to share every day with you both on the pitches and away from them.

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Ya me venía haciendo la idea pero hoy entré al vestuario y me cayó la ficha de verdad. Que difícil va a ser no seguir compartiendo el día a día con vos, tanto en las canchas como afuera. Los vamos a extrañar muchísimo. Fueron muchos años, muchos mates, comidas, cenas… Muchas cosas que nunca se van a olvidar, todos los días juntos. Va a ser raro verte con otra camiseta y mucho más enfrentarte. Te merecías que te despidan como lo que sos: uno de los jugadores más importantes de la historia del club, consiguiendo cosas importantes tanto en lo grupal como individualmente. Y no que te echen como lo hicieron. Pero la verdad que a esta altura ya no me sorprende nada. Te deseo todo lo mejor en este nuevo desafío. Te quiero mucho, los quiero mucho. Hasta pronto, amigo.

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“We’re going to miss you so much. We spent many years together, many mates, many lunches and many dinners. So many things we will never forget, all the time we spent together.

“It will be strange to see you in another shirt and much more to come up against you on the pitch. You deserved a farewell that fit with who you are: one of the most important players in the history of the club. Someone who achieved great things for the team and on an individual level.

Messi ended his rant by taking a fresh dig at the club hinting at his own contract saga situation.

“You did not deserve for them to throw you out like they did. But the truth is that at this stage nothing surprises me anymore.”