Thibaut Courtois assured this Thursday that he has never had an agreement to sign for him FC Barcelona, denying the statements of the former director of the Barça
Javier Bordas, who assured in an interview in MD that the Belgian was very close to the Camp Nou in the summer of 2014, when it was owned by Chelsea.
“It's not true that I had an agreement. It was from Chelsea, I played for Atlético on loan, I knew I would return to Chelsea and wanted to play there. I do not know why this has been said but it is not true “, he declared Courtois at the press conference prior to the duel of Belgium against Denmark within the framework of League of Nations.
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The goalkeeper had been asked about the statements in MD of the former Blaugrana manager Javier Bordas, who declared that he spoke with the footballer and “had it done” but that the management finally opted for Marc-André ter Stegen.
“I don't think I have to comment on things that people say in newspapers or like that. I think people know that my dream has always been to play in the Real Madrid and that I'm happy there, “he settled.
At the same press conference, already with a view to the match against Denmark in which Belgium hopes to confirm himself as group leader, Courtois commented that he remembers seeing Peter as a child Schmeichel, the famous Danish goalkeeper of the Manchester United of the nineties, but that was never among his youth models.
“I remember him, but my idols were Van der sar Y Boxes“said the 28-year-old Red Devils goalkeeper about the Dutch goalkeeper of the Ajax, Juventus or Manchester
United and about him being a goalkeeper for the Spanish team and his current team, Real Madrid.