Lionel Messi makes feelings clear to Inter Miami team-mates with 'unacceptable' demand

Lionel Messi has spent one-and-a-half play with Inter Miami and was near seething aft the broadside drew a crippled earlier successful the campaign, according to teammate Julian Gressel

Lionel Messi has made it wide to his Inter Miami teammates that drafting matches is "unacceptable".

After starring Miami to the Supporters' Shield by finishing astatine the apical of the regular play standings successful his 2nd play with the Major League Soccer team, Messi's precocious standards were evident. However, Miami were knocked out successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs, losing 2-1 to Atlanta United successful a best-of-three series.

Julian Gressel, a midfielder for Miami and a subordinate of the United States Men's National Team, shared insights astir sharing a changing country with Messi connected the 'Major League Journeymen' podcast.

He said: "It's demanding (working with him). You're talking astir the subordinate with the astir wins successful the past of the game."

"They're coming successful and they're expecting the same, and you arsenic a teammate, you benignant of person to get accustomed to that and get utilized to that with Messi, [Luis] Suarez, [Sergio] Busquets and [Jordi] Alba. It's unacceptable to necktie a game, arsenic elemental arsenic that. We tied a crippled earlier successful the twelvemonth and I retrieve him being truly really upset successful the locker room, he's like, 'We shouldn't tie, we can't tie.'"

Barcelona legends Messi, Suarez, Busquets and Alba whitethorn beryllium successful the last stages of their illustrious careers, but they've mislaid nary of their fervour for success. Midfielder Gressel opened up astir the dynamic wrong the team, singling retired Suarez for his forthrightness.

"When it comes to the crippled oregon erstwhile it comes to being serious, it's being superior and it's time," the 30-year-old continued. "If you're not doing your part, you're getting it, like, you're proceeding it. You announcement they're not content. [Messi has] addressed different guys directly, he's much truthful quiet, but you person guys similar Luis, who's a small spot much emotional.

"He's much outgoing successful a sense, emotionally outgoing similar that, truthful you perceive much from him. Messi volition surely travel up to you and volition speech to you much truthful alternatively than beryllium successful your look astir things. So we decidedly benignant of spot that demand."

Despite Miami being tipped to instrumentality the MLS Cup pursuing an awesome regular season, Gressel admits determination were aboriginal signs anterior to their playoff exit. "After the loss, the guys were distraught successful the locker room. You person everybody benignant of staring into nothing," Gressel said. "You conscionable beryllium successful the quiescent and benignant of successful disbelief, but besides precise hesitant too, like, 'Whoa, like, what conscionable happened.'

"I saw immoderate informing signs passim the past fewer weeks of the season. All twelvemonth long, we've fixed up excessively galore chances and we've fixed up excessively galore goals and that's each usually thing that you person to hole earlier the playoffs successful bid to benignant of marque a heavy run."