
Lionel Messi has been the spark of a reshuffle at Inter Miami after a heated incident on the crew bus with a membership director.
Inter Miami have benefitted from constructing round their star man, bringing in a lot of Messi’s associates and former teammates equivalent to Luis Suarez and Sergio Busquets in addition to hiring ex-Argentina worldwide Javier Mascherano as their supervisor.
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And it seems Messi’s affect has continued at board degree, with GIVEMESPORT reporting that president of soccer operations Raul Sanllehi has been reassigned away from the primary crew and to a task on the membership’s workplace services.
The change comes following an alleged ‘alternate of phrases’ after Sanllehi entered the ‘gamers and coaches solely’ bus after a pre-season pleasant towards Membership America in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Nonetheless, Inter Miami have been fast to brush away rumours of discontent by insisting that Sanllehi’s transfer to a brand new function was ‘pre-planned’ to occur this month.
A spokesperson advised GIVEMESPORT: “Raul’s transfer was pre-planned, in coordination with the closing of the window on the finish of January and the various actions that the crew has with the Membership World Cup, World Cup and different issues pertaining to institutional relations.”

Messi’s ‘godfather’ replaces Sanllehi in Miami
Sanllehi arrived at Inter Miami final yr because the membership’s main determine for footballing selections, having hung out at Arsenal in the same function between 2018 and 2020.
However the Spaniard will now get replaced by Guillermo Hoyos, a person who Messi as soon as referred to as his ‘godfather’ and ‘footballing dad’, having labored with the ahead as a youth coach with Barcelona.
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“He was my footballing dad,” Messi stated in 2010. “He’s helped me rather a lot since I got here to Barça. He was at all times with me, displaying me issues and has introduced me to the place I’m immediately, the primary division. I’m grateful that he’s my footballing godfather.”
Messi and Hoyos have maintained a robust relationship since and the Argentine coach turns into the newest determine with Barcelona connections to affix Inter Miami because the MLS aspect put together for the upcoming new season.