… change request in summer: It’s true that I had a very bad time in the summer and before because of the way the season ended. Then came the fax (in which he informed the club that he wanted to change, editor’s note). […] I told the president I was going, but he said no and I wanted to make it official. I will be eternally grateful to the club. Everything the club gave me, I earned with what I did. Then came the moment when I thought I had completed a cycle, that I deserved a change, that I needed to get out of it all. I knew there was going to be a year of transition, with young people, but I wanted to keep fighting for titles, for the Champions League, for the league. Then there was this whole mess with the president starting leaking things out to portray me as the bad guy, but that’s how I felt too.
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… his future plans: I will do my best for the club and for myself. I also want to live in Barcelona and stay with the club in one way or another when I finish my career. I always had the idea of going to the United States and having this experience. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Today I concentrate on these six months (until the end of the contract in the summer, editor’s note), on fighting for what I can and not thinking about how the season will end. Because it wouldn’t be good for me to say what I’m going to do. I do not know it either. […] It’s impossible for me to go to Real Madrid or Atlético.
… a reunion with Neymar: It will be difficult to get players back, there is no money. You need a lot of important players to win everything again, you have to pay for transfers and salaries. It would be very expensive to get Neymar back. How do you pay PSG? It is not easy. […] You’d have to ask Neymar why he said we were going to play together. We have a WhatsApp group with him and Luis Suárez.
… the departure of Luis Suárez: I thought it was crazy what they did because of the way he went. He left for a free transfer, paid for his contract and joined a team (Atlético Madrid, editor’s note) that are fighting for the same goals as us.
… the supposedly bad relationship with Antoine Griezmann: My relationship with Griezmann is good. I didn’t do what was said that I didn’t want his transfer. There is no problem with him, we even drink mate together sometimes.
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