The relationship between Lionel Messi and Gerard Pique deteriorated last year just before the Argentine left Barcelona, ​​and the reason for that is the money.

Messi left Barcelona because the club could not register a new contract in La Liga, and everything would have been different if Pique had not delayed signing the new contract until August last year and the Argentine can not forgive the longtime teammate.

The news was published by a Catalan TV station, citing its own sources who, during Xavi Hernandez's birthday party, noticed that all Barcelona players except Pique greeted Messi.

- The relationship between Messi and Pique has deteriorated after the signing of the new reduced contract of the defender. That hurt and disappointed Messi. I would not like to use the word betrayal, but Messi felt exactly that because Pique did not sign the new contract until Leo left Barcelona. Messi thought that Pique should have signed the new contract earlier and that might have prevented his departure from Barcelona - says the anonymous source.

According to the same source, Messi expressed his anger towards Pique in the groups of "WhatsApp" with the players of Barcelona.
"I had the opportunity to see a WhatsApp message from a former teammate listening to how disappointed he is with Pique," the source added.