Antoine Griezmann was the signing ‘bomb’ of the FC Barcelona in 2019, when the Barcelona had the intention to revolutionise to his team with one of the best players of the world. It was a signing that surpassed the 120 million euros to joint it with Lionel Messi, but the French never attained to settle in the team and finish leaving, by the rear door, of turn to the Athletic of Madrid.
The footballer has spoken in repeated opportunities on how was his go through the Barça, but recently has done it from a new perspective. It was recognised by the Athletic after surpassing to Luis Aragonese like the maximum goleador of the history of the club and have not lost the opportunity to ask him how was the process to decide leave the club, fichar by the culés and afterwards go back as yielded.
Griezmann Signalled that it was easy to take the decision to abandon the City Condal, because it had not adapted : “I Decided to go me because it had arrived to the limit mentally. It looked for always an excuse, when I was not giving the level. To the months darse that it was very happy where was, always tried to go back. When it called me Simeone said him that it wanted to go back yes or yes. I said them to my familiar that did all the possible for going back. It was angered with me same, worked a lot”.
How it returned Griezmann to the Athletic?
On the other hand, Miguel Ángel Gil, CEO of the Athletic, has remembered the process with which the club finish saying ‘repescar’ to Griezmann in quality of yielded: “they Were ten hours of the craziest that have had these years in the Athletic of Madrid. It began with a talk with Koke, with Simeone… We did not have long. There were options by the situation of the FC Barcelona and ahíempezóo a career without a lot of criterion but with a lot of passion”.
Simeone, of the same way, aimed that “there was not thought, in the moment in which it appeared the opportunity, was the footballer that needed. His arrival cost him at the beginning, worked to win to the people. The his merit is the one to have the clear things, to go back. I am a lucky like trainer to having been able to accompany it in all this stage”.
