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Colin Sheridan: Messi's judgement has never been more questionable

Does he really need the $25 million a year Saudi Arabia reputedly pays him?

Mon, 08 May, 2023 - 07:10

Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.

When news broke that Leo Messi had skipped training at Paris Saint-Germain and would be suspended by his paymasters for his unsanctioned absence, you couldn’t but hope - especially because PSG are such a basketcase of a club - that it was because Messi was back in Rosario, visiting his elderly abuela for a few days, helping out with some home modifications and kicking ball in the street with some local kids.

Or maybe he had headed to Naples, and to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona so he could bear witness to Napoli’s incredible Scudetto win, and the subsequent celebrations, which were so moving and wholesome in their purity they could’ve stirred the El Diego from his grave for one last epic night on the town.

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