Barcelona announced that Eric Abidal's contract as sporting director has been terminated on Tuesday. The former French international was a teammate of Messi's in the past but had some tension with the ...

Lionel Messi has hit back at Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal after the Frenchman blamed slackness in the dressing room for the departure of recently-fired coach Ernesto Valverde. In an ...

Barcelona coach Quique Setien said on Wednesday he would not comment on the controversy between forward Lionel Messi and sporting director Eric Abidal. Messi hit back at Abidal on Tuesday after the ...

Barcelona coach Quique Setien said on Wednesday he would not get involved in "Lionel Messi's life" after the Argentine superstar became entangled in a row with the club's sporting director Eric Abidal ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In another restructuring move following the humiliating loss to Bayern Munich, Barcelona on Tuesday ended its contract with former player Éric Abidal, who as sports director ...

The Blaugrana captain spoke out in defence of his colleagues after Abidal suggested certain players were not working hard enough Barcelona star Lionel Messi has hit out at former playing colleague ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Lionel Messi criticised Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal on Tuesday for saying many in the squad were not working hard under former coach Ernesto Valverde. Abidal and ...

On Tuesday the Blaugrana had a triple-whammy of bad news, the most serious of which came when their best-ever player called out the sporting director Quique Setien found it hard to believe he was ...

Following superstar Lionel Messi's public lashing out at the FC Barcelona hierarchy on Tuesday night, the club is set to hold crisis talks today to try to figure out a way forward. Insisting he did ...