Full disclosure, I am a Messi Stan. I think that a lot of his outbursts are not unwarranted when you consider that he is the single most targeted player in the sport. When teams prepare for playing Messi the mantra is: “we need to make him uncomfortable”, we need to ensure that he can’t even breathe when he has the ball” etc. The mentality players develop when they play against him is that they have to sacrifice there soul to the underworld to ensure that specifically messi doesn’t embarrass the team. Players say crazy stuff to him, they grab him in inappropriate places, they come up to him randomly trying to get him off his game. I love shithouse football so this is all part of the game. But when Messi and his goon squad start to fight back everybody says “wait a minute, where is this coming from.” Messi and the squad don’t start this shit, they finish it. Messi is world champion and if he wants to brag about it when he and his family are being insulted by other players, so be it lol.