- The Argentine believes Barca are a difficult club to deal with.
- He also says it’s never easy to leave a very big club with fans adoring you.
“I knew it was going to end badly and I thought Leo was going to leave,” Diego Maradona told Argentine newspaper Clarin, as quoted by Marca.
“It happened to me too. Barcelona is not an easy club and he has been there for many years and was not treated as he deserves.
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“He gave them everything, he took them to the top and one day he wanted to leave to get a change of scenery and they said no.
“What happens is that slamming the door is not easy; there is a contract, a very big club, people who love you. I didn’t do it at Napoli.”
As we all remember, Leo Messi asked Barcelona to let him leave for free this summer but former president Josep Maria Bartomeu refused, referring to the captain’s €700m release clause.
Eventually, Leo was forced to stay to avoid a legal battle with the Catalan club.
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