Zinedine Zidane does not expect Barcelona to be weakened by the off-field unrest that has blighted Real Madrid s LaLiga title rivals this week.
A potentially damaging row has broken out at Camp Nou after Barca star Lionel Messi hit back at director of football Eric Abidal, who suggested some players were not working hard enough prior to Ernesto Valverde s dismissal as coach.
Messi went public with his response in an Instagram post directly referencing Abidal s comments in which he wrote: When talking about players we should give names, because if not we are all getting dirtied and feeding things that are said but aren t true .
The situation is so serious that former Barca winger Francisco Jose Lobo Carrasco claimed Messi could be on the brink of exiting the …