During the tenure of former Barcelona president Badumeo, a little-known cyber-watering scandal surfaced. It was reported that the club had hired a network to discredit a number of core players in order to force them to take a pay cut. Recent investigation documents released by the Catalan police revealed that Barcelona executives insulted Messi in extremely vulgar terms, calling him a "rat" and a "hormonal midget".
It is reported that a number of Barcelona executives involved in this matter, including the head of legal affairs Ponti, CEO Laugher and "Maharaja" Badumeo, intentionally leaked Messi, Villa and other core players of the content of the contract, triggering the outside world on the question of the players, so as to achieve the purpose of pay cuts, the tactics are disgraceful.
An email conversation in police documents reveals that Ponti and Badumeo had a conversation about three years ago in which Ponti said, "You were too good to him, the 'pit rat', and gave him everything, but he's too selfish to manipulate the ball club to fatten himself up and have this 'hormonal midget' to blackmail us."
After the Spanish media exposure of this document, Messi once publicly voiced the request to leave the team, Barcelona's former senior once again become the object of the fans' verbal attacks. At present, Messi has not yet renewed his contract with Paris Saint-Germain, and this incident has made the possibility of his return to Barcelona extremely remote.
