Valdano criticses Setién: "He didn't need to say now what he didn't say before"

Quique Setién analysed his eight month spell at Barca for the first time in 'El País'. His words interested everybody, especially with what he had to say about Leo Messi.

Valdano gave his opinion on the interview to 'El Transistor' and expressed his doubts: ""There are implicit reproaches, veiled, within the discussion. When you speak, either you say everything very clearly or you leave a suspicion that is very uncomfortable".

"We all know that he was talking about Messi and he doesn't make a very good impression in the conversation with Vicente," he said. 

Furthermore, the former manager believes that now isn't the time to be speaking about Barcelona:  "I'm of the opinion that a coach is a very senior manager of a company and what he didn't say when he was inside the company, he doesn't have to say when he is outside. That's my opinion."

"The dressing room is a very particular environment, full of conventions, and what happens there should not be publicised. And if it is done, it must be done with total clarity, with the smallest details. Here there are some doubts within an interview where, for me, Messi does not seem to be very well off", he continued.

"He has lived that intimacy, at some point he reproaches himself for not having made decisions, that he was afraid of being above the culture of the club," he explained.

However, Valdano thinks that Setién said more:  "Indeed, there is a self-criticism that I find interesting, but I think the conversation ends up getting a bit out of hand and in the end, it went a bit further than it should. That's my point of view."

"I am of that opinion. I had to be a senior manager of a big club and when I left I forgot everything, I never spoke again about the people I managed at the time and certainly not in a critical sense," he concluded.

In the same interview, the pundit said that Barcelona should let Messi leave, and that he thinks the player is only creating a toxic environment at the club.