Former Barcelona defender Jeremy Mathieu in a candid interview Marca said that he does not consider the Catalan players his friends, does not like the president of the club and much more.

Mathieu spent some time watching in Sporting, and only after that the transfer was officially announced.

"No. The problems were connected with Barcelona. With papers. We could not announce the transfer, but it was not a preview. Everything had already been decided, but they announced it later, "Mathieu told Marca.

Jeremy was asked whether he left Barca with regret.

"No. I played a lot, won trophies ... The only thing that saddens me is that they say that I did not play much. In my first season I spent 58% of the matches, scored important goals. In the second, it was slightly less, 53-54%, which is also not bad. The last year was difficult - injuries and lack of confidence on the part of the coach, but this happens ".

"How many friends do I have left in Barcelona? I would not call them friends. Comrades. It was amazing to be in the same locker room with such players. But in this case I would prefer to say "comrades". "Friends" is too loud a word ".

"Would it be nice to score Barcelona?". And to win a match is even better. I do not know what I would do if I. I have great respect for former teammates. But if I'm going to celebrate Barcelona, ??it's only because of Bartomeu and Robert Fernandez, because they did not treat me very nicely. Only two of them left bad memories. But this is football, it happens, but now I'm very happy. I do not care anymore".

Mathieu often got in the press.

"It was in different media, not just the edition of Sport. I was slightly under the ball, that after every match they wrote about me something bad. anyway.

Football - a team sport and the blame for the defeat can not be assigned to a single player. I think so. In the match with Juventus, I was mistaken in the moment with one of the goals. The media might wonder what they did to Mascherano or Pique, but there is no ".

The match of the second round of the Champions League between Lisbon Sporting and Barcelona will be held on September 27.

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