BARCELONA – Gerard Piqué demoted the former president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, praised Florentino Pérez, recalled the 2-8 against Bayern, thus assessing the previous successes of Barça, announced his intention to retire from the Barça club, he recalled his time at Manchester United and in the Spanish national team, he talked about Sergio Ramos, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, the Barça elections and his recovery.
For more than two hours of relaxed conversation with Ibai Plans, one of the most popular streamers in the world on his Twitch channel, the Catalan power station, which turned 34 on Tuesday, left nothing, or almost nothing, in the inkwell .
Piqué, who in another conversation on the YouTube program ‘Post United’ directed his darts at Real Madrid on behalf of the referees, maintained a very relaxed tone with the famous streamer, avoiding almost no issues.
“I see Messi very happy and having him by his side is always a guarantee of success … But I don’t know his final intention; this is a question for him,” he warned when asked by the Argentine star. revealing that the issue of the Burofax “was a very difficult situation for everyone. on the one hand is the club situation, on the other the staff (that of the same player) and events happened that ended up the best way possible for Leo to stay, ”he summed up, not wanting to delve too deeply into what will happen at the end of the season.
“Failure is part of life,” he proclaimed as he recalled Lisbon’s 2-8 win over Bayern Munich. “It hurts a lot, but life is that. Sometimes life slaps you and you have to adapt, improve. You always have to look ahead,” explained the Barça midfielder, admitting that he was a stick “very strong” and taking advantage to then reveal that now “is when you value successes, titles … when you are in the age of lean cows you understand that you do not always win.
“You always have to have the ambition to want to win more things. Now that we’ve eaten a lot of shit, I value lifting titles a lot more. I’ve been lucky enough to win so much being so young that you won a World Cup and it was one more title. “That feeling of being young and feeling unstoppable … you don’t value success so much. Now that they’ve painted our faces, you do,” he said.
“I take Sergio Ramos … cordially. I have a good deal as I have with the other Real Madrid players,” said Piqué, who, acknowledging that he always liked to push the rivalry with the meringue club to the limit. , there was a time, that of Mourinho, “when all the red lines were crossed.
“It’s lighter now. It’s not to blame him, but he came and warmed up and when he left everything cooled down. Things are there. I’m a bit of a jerk and I roll within the parameters I consider without saying a red line and at that moment he crossed.There were actions like sticking his finger in Tito Vilanova.And the media and Madrid campaign that seemed like nothing was happening.We already know how this goes.Then over time it has been shown that one can have friendships with the rival while maintaining sporting rivalry. “
Less condescending was Bartomeu, who said that “he lacked leadership. I have a good deal with him and as a person I don’t see him as bad, but you have to have talents to lead a club like Barça, which is a transatlantic More than once I said to him, ‘take it, come to the sports city, we’ll talk’ but it never showed up …
“When you dodge bad times, everything gets complicated, more problems arise and things get worse; if you run away, you don’t show up and delegates become mountains. You have to know how to make decisions for the club to go well. There were moments in which leadership was needed, to give the face. When there are problems it is necessary to know how to solve them, to take the bull by the horns “.
In this sense, he compared the management of the former president of Barcelona with Florentino Pérez in Real Madrid, ruling that the meringue president “is a person who has a gift of command. With his decisions, which you may like or not, shows that He is the leader, everyone will have their opinion, but at least he shows that he has an idea and knows where he is going, with Ramos, with Cristiano at the time … with all kinds of players, he has a quality that with Bartomeu was not the specialty of the house “.
“Now there are elections at Barça and I hope that the member will still vote with the limitations of Covid. All three candidates are competent,” he said without taking a position and confident that the result would be the best for the Barça club: look to the future and I’m sure whoever comes out will do well. “
On a personal level he did not advance if he maintains the idea of becoming president of Barça. “Now all I’m trying to do is learn. I’ve learned good and bad things from Bartomeu, Rosell, Laporta … I’m trying to learn from everyone because everyone can give you a point of view. I don’t know what I’ll do in a few years. Now I’m playing football, I’ll try to stay as long as possible and when I see that I can’t raise my hand and I go home, then a new life will come, but there is an abyss. It’s hard to adapt and you have to be prepared. “, he advanced.
Referring to Cristiano Ronaldo, whom he met during his time at Manchester United, Piqué agreed that he maintains a “good relationship” with the Portuguese, describing him as “a winner, who competes always has brutal conditions. The immense value of Cristiano is that at a time when Leo has been the best, he has been able to win 5 Golden Balls. He is a very big milestone, a barbarity … When I met him I thought he was going to be a very big player, although not at the level of Messi, who from our time at Barça has already been seen as number one “.
Thus, he revealed that in football, the atmosphere of the locker rooms is long ago and recalled that in the Red Devils it was very different from Barça. “In England there’s a brutal black humor. I was bombarded in the locker room. Evra was coming in with Nike shoes and she was starting to pack. She goes to the gym to train and we burned her sneakers with gasoline and we recorded a video and it When she found out who she was, I sent her back and so every day … This is impossible here … when I arrived in Barcelona I tried to do the same but they didn’t understand each other. I did a couple and that’s it. “Wheels someone. Go out, shit on everything and I’ll threaten you. In Barcelona they didn’t give you a chance to follow the joke chain.”
However, Piqué said that the atmosphere at the Barça club, being different from that of ManU, is also one of camaraderie: “There are characters that upset you. Jordi Alba, at the time Aleix Vidal, who give vidilla to dressing room. Pussy every 5 minutes. A united wardrobe that has a good time, cool, is very important “.
Going over the Neymar case, “it’s a sensitive issue at Can Barça and it’s better not to get into it. There were other things and in life you’re wrong millions of times and you learn,” the center-back stressed that in his time with the Spanish national team “I had a great time. There was always a special atmosphere, not only with the players but also with the staff. The national team was a family for me.
“And in Madrid I spent a lot of time and I never found a bad face. Everyone greets you, a photo … Not a bad experience. In this sense I can only speak well of all my experience with the team. With the political issue was a couple of years that this whole debate was generated, but I look for the positive side and I was motivated to show that I could help the selection as much as possible. “