To dispel the largely unnecessary drama that's boiled up in recent days, we need a good win today with the players setting aside differences and showing unity/teamwork. Regardless of the outcome, Messi has to speak after the match to calm things down and maybe even apologize/clarify about Abidal IMO.
The ACTUAL narrative around the club right now should be the heavy transition period, building form and identity under the new coach, and dealing with the horrible depth crisis we have right now. This petty shite between Messi and Abidal about Valverde should have absolutely no relevance and no place here.
Much bigger fish to fry, and Ernesto fucking Shitverde cannot be the hill that this team dies on. He was nothing. Move on and build.